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On the distant horizon, you see it. An edge where the world extends endlessly before you.
A disturbing instinctual reaction warns you in bright flashing lights, stay away. The plain flat fields repeat on themselves in perpetuity. The mind struggles to perceive its scale. As far as the eye can see, there is suddenly nothing, as though an invisible threat had unhinged its proverbial maw and swallowed the earth. An empty, sinking pit in your stomach pulls you back with a stumble.
And yet, just below the shuddering nausea that crawls over your skin, a naive curiosity compels you forward. One could only imagine walking through such a boundless expanse, free and alone. You again inch closer; your scuffed sneaker nudges the barrier between the life behind you and the unknown. Silence rings in your ears like an alarm.
It seems so inviting from the other side. Its open arms beckon to you. Selfish human desire tells you in whispers, there must be something waiting for you at the other end of the expanse. Something secret and beautiful; something no one else can see.
You step over the edge, and with a gentle flicker, you are made part of the darkness.