Kass
I stand on the edge of a cliff, with the last two people that I love in this world asleep behind me as I weep.
I've never felt so alone. I've never felt so alive.
I finally know my purpose. Our purpose.
Whilst we live, there are people on Tellus that know the truth. Eldred and the Ra have to be stopped.
Nothing else matters.
Nothing.
I glance behind me as the mist casts them into shadow. Sammi, her hair spread out like a fan around her, lips slightly parted as though talking in a dream. I know who she dreams of. Who she always dreams of.
Who she's determined she will never see again.
Rai, with his slow, peaceful breathing, his midnight-blue hair sparkling with diamond raindrops. Rai, with the purest heart I have ever known. Locked behind a barrier I cannot break.
He's a step ahead of me, somewhere I can't follow.
And I don't know how to get him back.
But—whilst there's breath in my body—I won't give up on him. On Sammi. On us.
I stare out over the edge of the cliff, over the world that I love that's slowly killing us all.
And I remember that moment when Rai looked me in the eye and told me:
'They think of earthquakes and hurricanes and assume we're the same, just forces of destruction. But we're not. You're not. You're about life.'
I remember when we put our hands on that withered root. And together, made a leaf grow.
I can almost picture that leaf, the greenest thing I've ever seen, sitting so still, so perfect, beneath the palm of my hand.
As long as I remember that, maybe there's still hope that we'll be okay.
That we aren't about death.
We're about life.
The End