Part V The Voidbound
THROUGH DARKNESS THEY FELL, AND fell, and fell. Past the bridge of stars that connected the four living realms like points on a spiral. Past the path between heaven and hell. Through the deep abyss where souls turned to stone were tortured for eternity.
They had seen it all, every facet of these realms. It was a comfort to know they would be restored with their unmaking. The two held on to each other as they plunged toward this inevitable end, hoping to remain forever bound like binary stars orbiting around the darkness held between them.
The void opened below, inviting them to drown in its infinite nothingness.
They dissolved in a whisper, a hush.
And here, at last, was the end.
But there was peace to be found in endings, beauty in imagining where they might lead next.