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Alfredo was a retired chef with shaky hands and a steady heart. He’d lost his sense of taste to the same rain that stole the sun, but he still cooked. Every evening, he stirred pots of ghost-sauces and phantom-stews, and Nikita — his giant, fluffy Samoyed — sat at his feet, thumping her tail against the cracked linoleum.
Alfredo set down his ladle, walked over, and pressed a palm to the wet paint. For a moment — just a moment — his eyes went distant, like he was seeing something beyond the wall. romeo 39-s blue skies alfredo and nikita
He painted those skies on the only canvas left: the wall of Alfredo’s kitchen.
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Nikita lifted her head and howled softly — not in sadness, but in song. A long, low note that seemed to reach up through the crumbling ceiling and into the nowhere above.
That night, the sirens didn’t wail. No evacuation order. No drones. Just the three of them: Alfredo humming an old aria, Nikita snoring like a busted radiator, and Romeo brushing the last stroke of cerulean across the plaster. Alfredo set down his ladle, walked over, and
“Romeo,” Alfredo said, not looking up from his onions. “You paint another sky, the whole wall will float away.”
The air was bitter, metallic. But he breathed deep anyway.
Romeo smiled under his respirator. “Then you’ll have a window.”
“There,” Romeo whispered. “Romeo’s blue skies.”
