Ascension of a Gamma
The room gave off an air of seclusion, of loneliness, like
it was made for a person who had lost hope of something that belonged to the
outside world. But the one aesthetic in the room contradicted this assumption. Displayed
on a drinking glass half-filled with water, reflecting the sun’s yellow rays,
was a fully blossomed red rose. Its stem still had its thorns, a supposed
mechanism to protect itself but was futile in the hands of its gardener, so now
it clung to life, from the basic necessities it was provided. It showed
breathtaking elegance, but I knew that it was suffering a slow death in the