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• "I think you're out of time."
So it is.
I've said my piece and my time is up.
Like I said, I'm just an echo. And echoes always fade away.
You know what you have to do.
Just like that, I close my eyes as I feel myself shatter.
Everything goes dark,
and only silence remains.
.
.
.
At least, that's what I intially thought.
I can think.
I'm not exactly sure how, but I can.
... It's quiet.
Time passes
I wasn't sure how long it's been in this darkness.
Years, Decades, Centuries?
Or maybe just a few seconds.
Either way, I hope that The Long Quiet did the right thing.
The silence is deafening.
I can't feel my body, I couldn't see, hear, smell nor taste anything.
I stare into the void for god knows how long.
Perhaps until I stop thinking entirely.
Then, something strange begins to happen.
A flicker of light in the distance.
I dismissed it as a trick of the mind
until it flickers again, now shining in the endless darkness.
I wasn't imagining things.
Something is there in front of me. If there wasn't, I'm certainly losing it.
It's out of reach, and it continues to flicker like burning candle. A single star in the darkness.
Perhaps this light can keep me company here in eternal silence.
Have I really done the right thing?
I probably won't find that out.
I only did what I was told to do.
What I thought was right.
I blinked for mere moments just to find- wait.
Did the star just... Grew a little bigger?
And did I just blinked?
I'm not going insane and seeing things, right?
I blinked again, I felt myself blink.
I wasn't seeing things, the star is in fact growing larger albeit in a small pace. I feel my eyes as they wander around the void. Am I... Regaining my senses?