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I remember easier times. Times when you and I walked together and held each other when the peace of our lands became threatened.
I remember seeing you cry, only once, and that time I held you the tightest. I had not imagined someone as grand as you could reach the limit so trivially. It reminded me of my own divinity and the inability to hold mortality as close as you ever did, yet you taught me.
You gave me the most special gift.
The gift to grow and see what solidarity truly meant for the cookies I was supposed to help. It was thanks to you, my friend, I held on so strongly to the values I was given to protect.
And even when I fell from my graces, you held me. Even when my hands trembled from the atrocities I had done and begged you to end my life, you refused, you held me the tightest, You wanted to remain by my side even then. Even after what I had done, you still offered me your gentleness.
Had things being different, I would’ve loved to remain with you.
But despite everything, I wasn't that selfish. After all that had happened, I couldn’t risk everyone and everything else for a single wish, so I made up my mind. I thought that was the right thing to do, and that everyone would’ve been safer this way, including you.
Yet even my last act of kindness towards the world, towards my world, failed.
In the end I wasn’t able to keep safe what I loved most in all Earthbread.
I am so sorry, I wish I could’ve done more.
I’ll carry that regret for the rest of my days.
Farewell, my butterfly.