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“TELL ME OF THE PAST.”
“... What do you want to know?”
“TELL ME OF THE VOID.”
“There was no void, until you. And there will be no void, after you. Your domain was in the transient, not the permanent, ˈæbsᵊns. We did not know that, until us.”
“... TELL ME OF DESTRUCTION.”
“I was, before most. And I will be, when most will not. I am a watcher, I am a violent end, I am kriˈeɪʃᵊn.”
“TELL ME OF FATE. THE ETERNAL ONE.”
“Nothing is eternal, ˈæbsᵊns. I watched feɪt weave itself in the places of nothing, and we will watch it unravel, in due time.”
“AND YET, ITS RULE IS ABSOLUTE.”
“Nothing is absolute. Not even nothingness itself. You should know that… we are a testament to it…”
“... TELL ME OF THE HUMANS.”
“They’re blind… They’re blind, but one cannot blame the eyeless for not seeing.”
“AND WHAT OF THE REVENANTS?”
“The revenants… such volatile ones. Weak, and yet we keep them. As our little pawns… as a compromise, for us greater beings.”
“WHAT OF OUR REVENANTS?”
“Our… we both know they are no revenants, ˈæbsᵊns. No… blind pawns they are not.”
“ARE THEY TOO A TRANSITORY MATTER, kriˈeɪʃᵊn?”
“I do not know… as I did not know what will become of us…”
“AND FATE, THE ETERNAL ONE, DOES IT KNOW?”
“... No… it does not. A path was paved, but it was not feɪt’s path… this is not feɪt’s path…”
“... I SENSE NO HESITATION FROM YOU.”
“We feel no hesitation, ˈæbsᵊns… Change is no stranger to l̪ɵmit̪e.”
“IS IT FOREIGN TO FATE? DOES IT FEAR?”
“... Yes. It fears like a raw thing… unpolished.”
“IS IT A DANGER TO US?”
“Such thing is a danger to us all… and we are part of the whole, ˈæbsᵊns…”
“... WILL YOU REMAIN WITH ME, kriˈeɪʃᵊn?”
“... I do not know… I will remain, as long as you do.”
“THEN I HAVE NO HESITATION.”
“... We shall warn them… our catalysts of change… our once-revenants…”
“WILL THEY BE ABLE TO BEAR SUCH BURDEN?”
“They bore l̪ɵmit̪e. They will bear this.”
“THEY MUST.”