What is Red?

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This is from a writing prompt I did a while ago.  Hope you enjoy!

 "They say that the color of blood is red. They say that blood is what keeps us alive." She asked simply.

"What?" He replied, startled by this sudden questioning.

"What is red?" She turned towards him, her brows furrowed as in confusion. "What does it look like?"

"Why are you asking me this? Can't you see it?" He took a step closer to her.

"See?" A chuckle escaped from her lips, and that chuckle soon turned into a burst of hysterical laughter that sounded insane. "No foolish boy, I can't see. I'm blind."

He studied her face and saw that her pupils were white, not black like normal people. He then waved his hand in front of her face, and she made an annoyed impression.

"I may be blind, but I'm not dumb." She smacked his hand away, "Now answer my question."

"Which one?" He asked.

"The last one, what does red look like?" Her face fell when he didn't answer. "Or you can't describe it."

It wasn't a question, he understood, it was a statement of disappointmen

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