Chapter 62: Locked Wishes

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In the beginning, there was darkness. A great and terribly overwhelming darkness. A suffocating darkness without form, more vast and void than open space.

In a universe full of stars, there were no stars that shined and twinkled. In a universe filled with a sea of galaxies, there were no galaxies to be seen. In a universe filled with the orbs of planets, there were no eyes to be seen in those planet sized orbs.

Except one pair.

One — green — pair of envious eyes.

That pulled him inside a black hole, sending him inside to another realm. The gravity was so strong that light could not escape its force to fall inside it.

His light. His only light. The origin of light. The light in the darkness, that got swallowed. To begin anew, with a fall of death, to reach the flight of life.

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Ah, water.

I'm drowning.

I'm drowning again.

Where am I?

What happened?

Did I sink?

No shit, I'm sinking.

Where am I sinking?

A river? A lake? The ocean?

The water is rising, and my life is falling.

Oh fuck I'm in the darkest and lowest depths.

Shit.

I'm going deeper.

Plunging deeper.

My heart isn't beating.

My heart is burnt and frozen.

It's quiet.

It's too quiet.

It's almost peaceful.

Ha,eh, it's disturbing.

I'm breaking.

I'm broken.

I've been breaking for a long time.

I've been broken for a long time.

Where's Kakara?

Was I dreaming?

I was dreaming.

What was I—

Oh.

Mpho.

I dreamt of Mpho.

Is this real?

Mpho where are you?

You said it was real didn't you?

Ewe you did.

You said—

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