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Written for Day 4 of Jonah Magnus Week

Prompt: Bones

Jonah reminisces on those he had loved and what they had left behind.

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Jonah had owned these bones for so long, the bones of his dearest friend. He had stroked his fingers along the edge of the pelvis so many times it was almost muscle memory, had pressed his lips to the top of the skull and whispered his dreams and aspirations into the worn bone like he had once whispered them into Barnabas’s ear when he had been alive.

And while Barnabas’s bones were the ones he cared for the most, and his only full skeleton, they were not the only ones he had picked up in all his years.

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