We are waiting for connection. We are waiting for an opportunity. We are waiting for this path to be filled; with life, with victims, with delightful sounds. The sounds of passion, and pain, and punters passing by. We’re waiting for you.

We’ve been waiting like this for too long. We waited while you were misbehaving in public; we waited while you took your time hiding from the consequences; we waited while you wasted years in prison and going to court and being dealt with by society in the way that society sees fit.

And we hear that now society’s forgotten you, like you expected everyone else to forget you and you expected us to forget you. And you’re heading back this way and you should be here shortly: and that’s why we’re waiting. It’s that connection we want.

That connection of us, of yourself and ourselves, of our opposed paths. It will be violent, it will be loud, it will be destructive, and we cannot wait any longer. We’re almost spent with anticipation, because the waiting has not been easy for us. We’re not the sort who wait often, or for very long. You taught us all about that many years ago, when we were too young to have considered waiting for anything. Back then, we wanted something, we took it. We had to learn how to wait, we had to grow an appreciation of patience.

And here you come, now. The waiting can end, and the new reality can begin. We can see you approaching. We’re going to stand up now, reveal ourselves.

Don’t be frightened.

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