You try to meet his eyes with your own, but look away at the last second. It's too hard. You just can't make yourself feel that suffering again, not for a complete stranger.
"It's in the past. You're forgiven," you say, though you can't even bear to see him.
"I'm forgiven? Your forgiveness means nothing here," he tells you. "You didn't have your body crushed by granite. You didn't lose someone you love because of me. Keep your forgiveness. It has no value."
The man screams, and you reflexively look in his direction again. He is holding onto the ledge with all his strength as something in the fog pulls him downwards.
"It's coming for you too," he says, then falls, not dropping like a weight towards the bottom but disappearing into the middle of the quarry as though being yanked back by an unseen hook.
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