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// Empty White Rabbit //

Your heart has frozen over.

Your eyes have lost their luster.

You've lost all reason to care.

You've lost all hope.

So why, then...

is there a flame beginning to burn within?

Oh, white rabbit...

...Why haven't you given up, yet?

Oh, white rabbit...

...Why are you still trying?

You're a cruel, heartless beast, masquerading as something worthwhile.

You're a pretender. A faker.

Yet they hold you in their hearts all the same.

...Why do you hold them in yours?

Why do you choose to believe you can be anything more?

Why bother?

Give up.

Destroy yourself.

Can't you see you've already lost your own battle?

And yet...

That rabbit...

Keeps going.

on. and on.

and on. and on. and on. and on. and on. and on.

and never stops.

There's a storm in your heart.

They try to light a fire in your eyes.

And your feet still remain firmly on the ground.

You can be so much more.

You can be so much less.

You can be nothing at all.

Your heart still beats.

Your mind still dreams.

Your voice still carries.

You sew hope in those who know you.

You sew despair in those who know you.

You'll descend deeper, 

or you'll rise above...

...You've been given a second chance.

Yet you don't remember the first.

You know you were young.

Now you're growing.

Embraced by winter.

Don't let the darkness claim you, Cerelia.

Don't you feel that emptiness inside?

Don't you know what it means?

You've already lost yourself once.

And yet... you grow colder, and colder still.

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And so....

it all.

falls.

apart.

your world is collapsing.

you've shaken the foundations.

you've ruined that so called 'unity'.

now everyone knows.

you've gone too far.

haven't you?

you can't undo this.

is it still all on them?

you're scared.

you're hurt.

you're suffering.

...but you threw the first stone.

you invited this instability.

but instability wasn't enough.

you bring no hope in the end.

there is a nightmare coming.

...your little 'fire'...

...already lost them one.

a star of leonaus, held captive.

do you care?

there are rulers with no authority.

there are snakes with no venom.

nobody is winning.

the cracks in the foundation...

...the forge you call home...

...they're your fault, now.

the smell of blood is in the air.

the hunters are closing in.

and you

just

keep 

running.