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When the Traveler had ended her thirteen lives and took her final jump off the cliff that afternoon into the freezing ocean, she knew it was done.
Kiran, her father, wouldn't bring her back.
She had won the hellish battle after centuries, a battle between life and death. And she was right. She wasn't greeted by the usual soft face of 3204, her distant sister living peacefully in Kiran's afterlife, with a smile and encouraging words for the next try at life.
Instead, when her naked form passed through the Great Curtain, everything around her was dead.
Gone.
It was just as he'd told her.
"When we die, there is no Aranth greeting us with angelic beings singing songs of hope, and nor will the Pits of Aceron open to swallow us whole. Death is natural, and with Him, He brings great suffering in the empty Plains of Void."
All that surrounded the Traveler now was not a lush field painted a beautiful cerulean sky and endless sunlight. Rather, the jaws of the Void had finally came to swallow her whole, His gaping mouth positioned wide open to all those who seek it. Indeed, the fate was tragic and no less sorrowful for the machine, but thought was able to remind her that the hands of Darkness dragging her away from the hellish world was her final wish. And embraced it she did on this day, her hands of fading matter merging into the black until her form no longer existed, becoming one with the Void and another piece of dust wandering the Universe. How it held her decaying form and moved across her body is only unknown to mankind; but, moved, she did, until all she was was nothing and the two had merged as one.
Had her fragile soul of impure light not been captured by Death and His Void, it would have been easier to notice the fated rising of Kiran's palm, moving impossibly fast through the emptiness, managing to surpass all limits that man and godkind should have in the Holy Land. But Kiran was a god, yes, highest ranking of them all. Lord Kiran, indeed, son of Lucien and the wise goddess Achlys, born with the power to shake the earth and bend the darkness as he saw fit; ok it 3nds here for now