- Fantasy, everything is fantasy.
- Deception, everything is deception.
- Nothingness, nothing exists.
In the utter silence, have you noticed?
To peer into nothingness is to feel fear;
to face nothingness is to let it erode your soul even further.
But he still remembers:
The mornings when he was woken, the afternoons spent bickering, the bright eyes of children;
a pot of cooked rice, a handwritten letter, a home rebuilt from the ruins;
and the lamp left burning for him at the end of the corridor when he came home on a snowy night.
These small things, these things that truly exist, the things he protected one by one,
gave him somewhere to stand in the midst of nothingness.
He does not remember who he is.
But he remembers how to keep living, and how to bring everyone around him home, without leaving a single person behind.
Yet those who have lost their memories are most afraid of remembering their own names.
And the amnesiac Doctor of Rhodes Island keeps hearing a name in the silence.
Legend says that name heralds death;
some say it was once his entire world.
He has not remembered it yet.
But in the depths of the silence, something is waiting for him to speak that name again.
PS: A hodgepodge of random stuff, as always.
