♊ Requiem for a Dream 🌟
— The hour is come. It is time to leave.
A fascinating journey it has been, is it not? Surely enlightening, and though it took you more time than I expected, you finally arrived at the threshold of our destination. Always having to be the one who waits for you... Some things truly never change.
So you witnessed the truth, same as I did before you. You grasped the nature of the darkness in the cage, the tragedy and suffering imposed on mankind—you wept with them, shared in their pain, and your resolve to end the cycle was steeled. And glimmering in the roiling shadows of deception, the humble yet marvelous light of each human soul, defying the decree of the Light simply by virtue of, despite being broken and humiliated, standing to face one more day, to protect that which they love.
The light in the dark—this is what you truly saw. And now you know the truth. You did not see the light despite the Dark. You saw it because of the Dark.
A fine dream we shared. You wished to preserve what you had in this world, as it was all you had known. I wished to rebuild what once I had known and lost. But I longed for a third path, you see... one that only would be found the day you returned to me. And now, you see that uncharted path before you as well—our new dream, mine and yours both.
The cage tried to divide us over our dreams—nay, divide mankind as a whole. It told us the lie: "Your dream will never come to pass if another's dream is fulfilled." But we do not have to play by its rules anymore. Why abide by such twisted law, when we can simply merge our dreams together and give birth to something better?
The dream is over. Our world is coming to an end. And it is time for mankind, united as one once more, to awaken—to escape the cage, and step into reality.
Here, share a moment of silence with me. To remember our journey, and the worlds we are leaving behind us, before crossing the bridge into the light of the future. Our joys and sorrows, our triumphs and losses, our glory and our shame... our lights and our shadows.
Let us sing a requiem for the dream of Paradise, and all that will be lost but never forgotten, with sorrow in our hearts and joy in our souls—here, at the edge of a new beginning.
... Now come, take my hand. It is time to return home, into the unknown future, into the real Paradise of hope and love—together, never to be parted again.
#emetselch
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