[It could...just be another place filled with boxes. A lot of living rooms look the same, right? But it's eerie - too familiar; it unsettles him regardless.
[The question, too...
[Why...? Did Sunny ever truly understand? Did he even really ask?
[Because Mari's room was left just as it had always been, the door shut for four years; because there's still a stump left in the backyard from the tree where Mari's body swung; because her grave is only blocks away in the back corner of Faraway Town's only cemetery; because people know them there, ask them questions; because Sunny is afraid to leave the house; because his mother can't stand to look at him and its easier to get lost in a bigger city; because--]
cw: death, grief, suicide imagery
[The question, too...
[Why...? Did Sunny ever truly understand? Did he even really ask?
[Because Mari's room was left just as it had always been, the door shut for four years; because there's still a stump left in the backyard from the tree where Mari's body swung; because her grave is only blocks away in the back corner of Faraway Town's only cemetery; because people know them there, ask them questions; because Sunny is afraid to leave the house; because his mother can't stand to look at him and its easier to get lost in a bigger city; because--]
Mom...got a new job.