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Someone did come over almost immediately to comfort Lilly. She had put on a happy face however and spoke about Dale as though she was more than content with his passing, said he would now be at peace with no more pain and she was willing to accept the news.
This is why the visit did not last long, it was over within 40 minutes and Lilly was left alone to her thoughts. However something sparked up in Lilly the moment she saw her visitor off, something sparked up that didn't make sense. She smiled, and then started taking apart household objects, starting with the speakers and microphone of her beloved laptop, and finishing with the screen of her television.
The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months, Lilly was constantly taking things apart, she had ignored phone calls and if anyone came knocking she would only speak briefly to them on the doorstep, not letting them into her flat and with good reason. It looked like the house of an insane wire collector, or a nutty professor. There were computer parts, radio parts, television parts and more, covering the floor, only Lilly knew what they all meant however.
She would now wake up in the morning, eat and breath technology, then go to sleep at night, it was all she did. Every time she took something apart she would think about Dale, and telling herself that it's what he wants her to do. Little did she, or anyone else know, she had in fact spiralled uncontrollably and now gone completely senile.
She had done nothing for eight months but take things apart; she never put a screw back into anything all this time. Until suddenly something happened, Lilly had just placed the toaster down in front of her and stumbled over the carpet of wires and circuit boards that was now her kitchen floor, got a screw driver and was about to take another innocent piece of equipment apart with no intention to use it further. Lilly had a sense of realisation.
"This isn't what Dale wanted" she said quietly to herself, placing down the screwdriver and picking up the toaster only to embrace it close to her, she rocked back and forth slightly looking around at the mess she had created over the last 8 months, her eyes welled up with tears. She missed Dale, she missed his motivation and everything they hadn't shared in life, she was now regretting.

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Someone did come over almost immediately to comfort Lilly. She had put on a happy face however and spoke about Dale as though she was more than content with his passing, said he would now be at peace with no more pain and she was willing to accept the news.
This is why the visit did not last long, it was over within 40 minutes and Lilly was left alone to her thoughts. However something sparked up in Lilly the moment she saw her visitor off, something sparked up that didn't make sense. She smiled, and then started taking apart household objects, starting with the speakers and microphone of her beloved laptop, and finishing with the screen of her television.
The days turned into weeks and the weeks turned into months, Lilly was constantly taking things apart, she had ignored phone calls and if anyone came knocking she would only speak briefly to them on the doorstep, not letting them into her flat and with good reason. It looked like the house of an insane wire collector, or a nutty professor. There were computer parts, radio parts, television parts and more, covering the floor, only Lilly knew what they all meant however.
She would now wake up in the morning, eat and breath technology, then go to sleep at night, it was all she did. Every time she took something apart she would think about Dale, and telling herself that it's what he wants her to do. Little did she, or anyone else know, she had in fact spiralled uncontrollably and now gone completely senile.
She had done nothing for eight months but take things apart; she never put a screw back into anything all this time. Until suddenly something happened, Lilly had just placed the toaster down in front of her and stumbled over the carpet of wires and circuit boards that was now her kitchen floor, got a screw driver and was about to take another innocent piece of equipment apart with no intention to use it further. Lilly had a sense of realisation.
"This isn't what Dale wanted" she said quietly to herself, placing down the screwdriver and picking up the toaster only to embrace it close to her, she rocked back and forth slightly looking around at the mess she had created over the last 8 months, her eyes welled up with tears. She missed Dale, she missed his motivation and everything they hadn't shared in life, she was now regretting.