[What will she find...? Serenity makes a connection-- between this and a nightmare from her own cognition. One that someone she loved dearly helped put at rest. Now... it feels like it's being stirred up again.
Fearing the dark. Fearing that she will lose everything. Her hands clench tightly into fists.
No. She won't go back there.]
...I don't know. Fear. Pain. Loneliness... But also... hope. Something unknown. Something new. Unbreakable bonds and priceless experiences.
And always... there's always a way forward. A path you can find.
...not just exist. I want to find my place-- in this world and my own. I want to find what it is that I can do to make those places better. And I want to do that alongside the people I care about.
I've had many things taken from me. At great cost.
But I've also regained many of those things-- even if... they're a little different now... and I've gained so much more than that, too.
I don't regret it.
Those things-- good and bad-- have meaning to me. I don't expect the world or the universe to feel that. But that doesn't make my feelings any less real.
One day, my life will end. It's unpleasant... but it's a simple truth. I don't know when or how or why. But I don't really want to know either.
But it's because I know that fear and have experienced coming so close to death that I am the person I am now. I can appreciate the good and the bad and live my life to the fullest because I have goals... ambitions... desires... Things I can only appreciate because I know that this time I have is limited. It makes me want to move forward. Fight. Live.
Our time may be limited, but our lives have the power to touch those we meet. We leave our mark on those we share our lives with… sometimes even the world itself.
But the half-hostile pressure that's been present the whole time withdraws. Things start feeling a little more real now - no longer that distant cold of outer space, but the regular chill of an autumn day. There's a sense of terrible exhaustion in the air.
Again, there is a tiny glimmer somewhere ahead - but white or silverish this time rather than gold.
As Serenity comes closer, the space landscape around her slowly dissipates, once again becoming the city from before. And the soft glimmer turns out to be... a small crystal, but without a symbol and softly glowing with Levity's position colour.
As you hold the crystal, something seems to happen to your vision. Faint silvery lines seem to overlay it - no, it looks like everything around you has a new dimension to it, as though lit by inner fire. Perhaps if you could see the movement of the wind and the flow of static electricity, that is what it would look like, streams of feeble colour and light flowing through everything.
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Emptiness, silence.
Can there truly be found meaning in the middle of nothing?
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...yes.
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Fearing the dark. Fearing that she will lose everything. Her hands clench tightly into fists.
No. She won't go back there.]
...I don't know. Fear. Pain. Loneliness... But also... hope. Something unknown. Something new. Unbreakable bonds and priceless experiences.
And always... there's always a way forward. A path you can find.
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...not just exist. I want to find my place-- in this world and my own. I want to find what it is that I can do to make those places better. And I want to do that alongside the people I care about.
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They may never bear fruit.
All that you know and think you care for, all that you call "good" - the universe does not care for it. It may take it away. It may not.
But the choice is never yours.
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I've had many things taken from me. At great cost.
But I've also regained many of those things-- even if... they're a little different now... and I've gained so much more than that, too.
I don't regret it.
Those things-- good and bad-- have meaning to me. I don't expect the world or the universe to feel that. But that doesn't make my feelings any less real.
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There's pain, but-- whether it's precious memories or things we've learned or just... a depth of feeling... it's still an important part of us.
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What meaning is there in loss? What meaning is there in death of others?
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...I'm sorry. There is no simple answer.
One day, my life will end. It's unpleasant... but it's a simple truth. I don't know when or how or why. But I don't really want to know either.
But it's because I know that fear and have experienced coming so close to death that I am the person I am now. I can appreciate the good and the bad and live my life to the fullest because I have goals... ambitions... desires... Things I can only appreciate because I know that this time I have is limited. It makes me want to move forward. Fight. Live.
Without regrets.
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Is it only through death that you gain your meaning? Is it only by knowing that you end that you can live your life?
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No.
Our time may be limited, but our lives have the power to touch those we meet. We leave our mark on those we share our lives with… sometimes even the world itself.
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But the half-hostile pressure that's been present the whole time withdraws. Things start feeling a little more real now - no longer that distant cold of outer space, but the regular chill of an autumn day. There's a sense of terrible exhaustion in the air.
Again, there is a tiny glimmer somewhere ahead - but white or silverish this time rather than gold.
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Seeing the small glimmer of silver, she approaches gently, the same as she did with the one earlier.]
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Take it?
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But now she’s back… that probably means it’s time to go left!]
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You acquire AETHERSIGHT!
And, as you head left...