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Escaping to Utah had been a mistake.
There wasn’t a new beginning waiting for him on the other side of the world, just crushing loneliness.
He found a menial job as a gas station attendant, settled down in a small flat that felt even more cramped than the Camarvan had been, without all the illegal potion stands to fill it up, and went about forming a whole new routine for himself. When the world started closing in on him, he tried to adopt a pet, only to learn that he didn’t have the funds to keep it. Not if he also wanted to eat.
One year went by, and all he did was rot.
The man who’d once stood proud as the president of his own nation was now struggling to hang onto the bottom of the social ladder. Oh, how far the mighty had fallen…
On the day of the first anniversary of his arrival in Utah, he left a letter for his landlord explaining that the shithole he’d been renting had been utterly destroyed and telling him to go fuck himself. He called in sick to work, headed to the beach, and just rowed away. Back to Dream’s land. Back to the land of opportunities.
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or, Wilbur's triumphant return goes horribly wrong
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- Part 19 of Clingytober 2025