Gabriel Troepolsky. White BIM Black Ear (№ 414387)

When dogs lose hope, they die naturally - quietly, without murmuring, in suffering unknown to the world. It is not Beam's business and not his ability to understand that if there was no hope at all, not a single drop on earth, then all people would also die of despair. For Beam, everything was simpler: it was very painful inside, but there was no friend, and that's it. As a swan dies after the loss of its beloved, soaring up and throwing itself like a stone, like a crane, having lost its own and only crane, stretches out flat, spreading its wings, and screams, screams, asking for death from the moon, so then Bim: lay, saw in delirium the only one and an irreplaceable friend and was ready for anything, not even realizing this readiness. But now he was silent. There is not a single person on earth who would hear a dog die. The dogs die in silence.