"Time is never a straight line. Not a journey from point A to point B. Time simply is changes, and chaos. What is immortality? Sometimes I wonder. If immortality is one man living forever, can it really be possible? Time changes and changes...and changes. The living mind strives to keep the 'I' the same, Time strives against. If not insanity break you, will you really be the same person after an eternity of life, or will you have become someone else. Are you then immortal... or just incapable of dying? Loneliness, the award you sooner or later receive for being the best at being incapable of dying. Loneliness is such a sweet illusion. Alone at the top. Alone is strongest. The one and the only. A god on his throne. The infamous phrase "Foolish Mortals..." seems to fade to a grim taste of copper-tainted bitterness after a while. Is the world crazy, or are you? How can one know without anything to relate to? Nothing but your own reflection. Is the memories you cherish as your youth, just reflections of the imagination shaped by the fogs of an eternity's beating on your mind? Don't you just WISH you knew... for SURE. But you don't. And can't make sure... without an anchor to the origin of your imaginary memories of a past you think you recall. Oh, but keep thinking and imagine. Keep keeping yourself sane over the centuries with the vain hope you will find the proof of your own existence that you need, someday. Allow me to LAUGH."
"Look again. But there, unbelievable enough, is another one. A living specimen from the imaginary memories. Imaginary? No, - no more. Suddenly the isolated left-over becomes one with the rest as it can be placed alongside something other. Something to relate to. Darkness without light is nothing but an illusion. Light without Darkness is a mere nothing. It's when you combine the two you find the trickster called Life. To LIVE, is the ultimate goal for every creature... Darkness beyond darkest pitch, Light beyond brightest sun. None IS, without the other. Balance and struggle is everything, eternally. Do they remember that?"
"The minute she stepped up onto the scene, he must have felt her. Like a shadow that finds the light that cast it. From these black seas I hear him wonder... - Wonder if that is how The Ruby-Eyed One felt, so many centuries ago... at the column of the supposed end. The Dark was winning, and would have. The question asked, why did it not? Perhaps It too realized, upon the glory of such a victory, what the end would mean. Separation of the sides... end to life and time. So... Instead of striking the other silent, embrace the other and burn out. Both sides taking each other out, in joining. Heh, I bet they wonder if Ceifheed was surprised..."
"Where there is Time, there can be hope. A few hopes left, a few survivors. Their minds keep the struggle open and alive... and eventually makes the world turn again. Ironic. L-Sama may be pleased. - Or at least mighty entertained. "
"Madness... all off it. The eternal circles, the chaos, the Humans. The ultimate chaos, - a blending of the power of will, darkness, light, time, and mortality. A perfect combination, and yet - the most imperfect creation of them all. Preach like the likeness of the Dragon Gods, live like Mazoku. And it changes with the blink of a single eye. What would happen if it all just withered away... collapsed back into the golden sea? No, there is need for a rebirth. Another try. Save the remaining children. Then... this... this strange leap of an era could bridge over into another new... Restore the ultimate combat again. As it was to be..."
"So there is the lone darkness. On the verge to a chance to restore a world. Bust the most important ingredients is missing... Take the chance? Will they understand and then risk it? Just wish they follow the signs and tries, what's more to do? But the last question remains, - if hope is realistic. Will the seams of reality hold for another world-battle...?"
But aah...
Suppose,
... that that is,
The Secret.
Hai, thisa lil' chapter is a conversation-thing, and don't ask who's talking... Guess, for now (it'd be fun to hear), and wait 'til the Epilogue. ^_^