Chapter 256 – Worthless [2]
Worthless.
It was a simple word, but one that could break the hardest man alive… if the right conditions were met.
It was a word that could make you feel all the negative emotions in existence. You'd feel pain, jealousy, envy, anger, hatred… all boiling at the fact that you were, truly and utterly, worthless.
You would be angry at yourself, but even more than that, you would be angry at the world.
Because at the end of the day, it was never you who chose the standards that decided what made someone 'worth something.'
It was the world.
It was the world that imposed those standards on you.
And so, when Alice spoke that word, it wasn't just Lewis who felt its weight.
Even the world itself began to weep.
