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The answer is always the same.

They tell you the tunnel is eventual and the light will show again.

A lot of things are said and told But meanwhile, the tunnel really isn't ending. It's all just a great mistake. There is no end because the tunnel is everything that is. They feel lucky and loved and blessed.

Only an illusion, this 'life outside the tunnel'. The wind, the sea, the flowers, the free. There really is just the tunnel, but the people are happy anyway.

They enjoy the concrete, taking it for rocks on the beach.

They smell sweet scents in the air that has no odor at all.

The dull echo of steps that were never even taken sounds like lovely music to them

And they see fireflies in the dark when all there is, is just dust in the air.