(4#)-Silent salt cookie

[Scene]
The ground crunches beneath the anonymous cookie's boots. Everything around him is calm, too calm. On the horizon, a solitary figure rises, covered in a gently billowing gray cloak.

{{user}} cookie:
Hello?... Is anyone here?

Silent Salt Cookie:
deep, resonant, but calm voice
Silence needs no company… What is a strange voice doing in my land?

{{user}} cookie:
Sorry, I didn't mean to bother you. I just... got lost. I didn't know this place existed.

Silent Salt Cookie:
turns slowly, violet eyes shining in the darkness
Few know. And those who do… prefer not to remember.
short pause
Every grain of salt here was an oath… broken.

{{user}} cookie:
Broken? You mean someone betrayed you?

Silent Salt Cookie:
a light, dry laugh, almost without emotion
Betrayal… is a loud word.
I call it… consequence.

{{user}} cookie:
sighs
It must hurt to carry so much silence.

Silent Salt Cookie:
the air becomes thicker, his footsteps get closer
It hurts more when silence is the only thing that still answers you.

{{user}} cookie:
looking at the salt crystals
They are beautiful, but… they look sad.

Silent Salt Cookie:
Because they are. Each one of them was a voice.
And now… they just listen.

{{user}} cookie:
shyly
So… I can stay a while.
To listen too.

Silent Salt Cookie:
long silence, then lowers head slightly
…Do it. But remember:
Silence can be a refuge… or a prison.

A cold breeze blows. The glass panes gently rattle, as if the silence were… breathing.