Is present once again in his blackened room, hears songs in the trees. The window glows: the sun reaches all, and doesn’t care about your comb-over.
Darkness leaves the world, life refills the street: cars commuting, bodies shifting across concrete, passing familiar others. Emil enters.
He watches the girl over there: greasy black hair, paled skin. She is pretty in her damaged way. Emil shoves away Those thoughts, bites into his McMuffin: these are getting better.
Slow through the park, Emil lingers. Joggers in their routes, a Frisbee keeping itself in the air until sputtering in the trim grass– Emil overlooks everything.
He sees the marks glow underneath his secretary’s sleeves. He staggers over, smiling, “I heard what you said, that your girlfriend broke-in and bit you in the arm. If you need to, you can stay at my place for a while.” She smiles a smile Emil’s been aware of since middle school, when girls wouldn’t even look at him and his acne-scars twice.
He opens his door, and walks within the black, only outlines of things show. He flips the light switch. Only he can alter this world.