[ She can only watch in silence, just as he does, as his world's prophecy comes to and end by pain, magic, and light that shatters-- his soul that does the same, breaking apart into nothing, gone and indistinguishable from the matrix that surrounds them.
It's finally over.
A year ago she had noted how he looked... tired as his older self, and she hears both exhaustion and relief in the tone that she can't help but think how grossly she must have underestimated that tiredness. From this vision she sees that even in his final moments conscious, he's put on another trial, fighting against his pain, made to be in pain because that's how his world's magic works, no rest, not until the end. He gives so much, she's also said to him. Now she knows that he'll give everything, the entirety of his existence, his soul.
She's rendered silent afterward.
This world is beautiful because you're in it-- is something she's once told him, and now... The galactic realm in which they are in is beautiful, and she believes that the world of Eos must be reaching its dawn by now-- also beautiful. But both realms are now without him.
Something wet stains the side of her cheek.
Without another word, she turns and pulls him into a fierce, desperate embrace. ]
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It's finally over.
A year ago she had noted how he looked... tired as his older self, and she hears both exhaustion and relief in the tone that she can't help but think how grossly she must have underestimated that tiredness. From this vision she sees that even in his final moments conscious, he's put on another trial, fighting against his pain, made to be in pain because that's how his world's magic works, no rest, not until the end. He gives so much, she's also said to him. Now she knows that he'll give everything, the entirety of his existence, his soul.
She's rendered silent afterward.
This world is beautiful because you're in it-- is something she's once told him, and now... The galactic realm in which they are in is beautiful, and she believes that the world of Eos must be reaching its dawn by now-- also beautiful. But both realms are now without him.
Something wet stains the side of her cheek.
Without another word, she turns and pulls him into a fierce, desperate embrace. ]