Seldom I Dream of Death - Arc Prelude | There Will Come Soft Rains

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The boy has once dreamed through open eyes. Enticed by the way of the world, he has fallen, he has bruised, and he has stood again. He has stood only to dream again. He dreams of lands across the sea where those who inhabit them carve his very name into ink. He dreams of technology capable of achieving the impossible.

He dreams of life born anew, for he has tasted death for far too long. His soul has fluttered away, dead to the wind, sworn to be buried under the listless yearning to be given a second birth. Through his dead, milky eyes, he sees another dream belonging only to him. He reaches out his rotted arm and strokes the tendrils of light seeping through that wall before him — a wall far too impenetrable to break, but translucent enough to let streams of fettered light pass. There is not much; it is confined, just as he is.

Just outside his crystalline chamber, a sweet voice emerges—

"I kept my promise."

"I have rebuilt you to become more radiant than you once were."

Tasting life on his tongue and feeling chills engulf his feeble soul, the boy who could only dream opens his eyes to the world.

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