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[h2]Nameless Savant[/h2][b][color=darkred]Chapter 0 - Flamma Vitae[/color][/b][hr]
There are some who follows the light out of avarice. Others, out of fear of the expanding darkness. There are even others who do so out of curiosity. And then, there is you. Your reason for following the light is not the thirst for endless power, nor the fear of death, nor the sense of curiosity. It is not even of random impulses. No, yours is something much more simple; much more basal.

Loneliness.

You lust for companionship, so much that you bonded with an aged stick that was lying in the middle of the void. You shared your life light with it, and it became a part of you.

And in this so-called light, you can feel the existence of something other than yourself. Thus, you decide to blindly follow it, with your biggest fear being to find nothing at the end of the road. You do not care for the fact that the light brought you to steep grounds or deep trenches. You do not care for the fact that it leads you through a winding labyrinth of thorns. No, you do not care where it takes you, as long as it does not leave you alone.

And finally, you reach the end of the road. The footsteps of light have all but vanish, and before you, is what seems to be an exaggerated reflection of yourself. A miserable being, bound by countless threads of darkness; voided of all senses by layers upon layers of veils. Still, you can feel fire within it. A burning force, so strong that even the endless void could not hide.

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Should you try to say hi? What will you do?