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it all happened so fast that william didn’t know what to make of it. she peered down as they all burned from the mere sight of what he found so beautiful. why couldn’t they understand? this was its only chance to be understood by the people of euclydia, by those who wronged him so terribly for what they couldn’t see.
and then william blinked. and euclydia, as she once knew it, was gone. just like that. his mother was no longer there. neither was his father. neither was anyone. she could barely even process it, that they had just killed everyone. every single person on his sad little plane.
it should feel guilty, she should feel terrible. but william didn’t want to feel those things, so he didn’t.
they turned around, looking up at the stars one last time, before she decided he would try again. a different form, a different way to do it, they would get some kind of other living lifeform to see them.
to see the stars.