Endless dream

Follow your heart, not the rules !

"... Singer ?"

It was impossible. It was impossible. (Y/n) couldn't believe it. She couldn't bring herself to believe it. And yet, she wanted to believe it. She desperately wanted to. So why she couldn't ? Even after seeing the earring on their right ear ?

The person she had been yearning to see so much, the one she made a promise with, the promise of finding each other again, in a place filled with flowers, a long long time ago, a day that felt like a nostalgic and beautiful, yet distant and sorrowful dream...

That person was just in front of her. But it felt like it wasn't the case. They were here, yet there weren't. They were the Singer, yet it felt like they weren't. A shadow, that was what the person in front of the (h/c)-ette was. The mere shadow of the one she wanted to see again, nothing more, nothing less. A simple copy, a sort of... consolation 

"You're... You're not them, are you ? You’re not the Singer, right ?"

The person in front of her smiled serenely, and (Y/n)'s heart ached at how painfully similar their smile were to the Singer's one. They shook their head, and her heart ached even more, even though she already knew the answer 

"You're right. I am not them. But in a way, I am them. To be more precise, I am a part of them."

"You are... The Singer's shadow ?"

The shadow giggled and shook their head, their antics exactly similar to those of the Singer. They were without a doubt a part of them

"No, I am not. Though I am quite similar to a shadow. I am the manifestation of the Singer's magic contained within the earring. You could say I am its... spirit, in a way. I was created by the Singer to guide you. That's why my appearance and behavior are similar to theirs."

It explained why the (h/c)-ette felt like they were the Singer yet weren't. But then, if they had been created by the Singer to guide her... Did it mean that... But then why they were but a shadow wearing the earring ?

"I am sorry to tell you this, but I don't have much personal information on my creator. Actually, I have as much personal information on them as you do. That's why I appear as a shadow wearing the earring, because that's the only thing you know about the Singer's appearance."

"But... You were created by them..."

"Indeed, but they made sure I don't remember anything else but what you need to know. Their appearance, their personality, their voice, their name... I don't have any memories of all those details. The number of information I have is limited, but the Singer gave me all the details you need to know. To help those children... And keep your promise."

"... Go ahead."

"Like I said, this dimension was created by the resonance between the nullifying power of the earring and the remnants of overblotted magic within Riddle. When you touched him, the earring captured those remnants and started nullifying them. But while doing so, there was a resonance between the two magic and that place was created. Which means that this place was created by Riddle's magic... Magic that will show you the reasons of his sufferings. Since this place exist outside of time, the time in the roses maze has been stopped. Which means that when you'll come back to the real world, time will start flowing again, and everything will restart from where it stopped."

(Y/n) didn't understood much of what the spirit said. But she understood the most important part, the one on the reasons behind Riddle's overblot. The reasons of his sufferings... It was linked to his childhood, and the way his parents, and especially his mother educated him. But she didn't knew anything else about it. Just what kind of past did he had for things to end up that way ?