*I step, moving in a manner all too similar to a cursed [i](blessed?)[/i] paradox, and find myself on the other side of the still dead world, surrounded by the husk of a city long dead and alive*

[i]I suppose it hardly matters, and yet still it does, but what this shall mean I will both see and unsee. Find and not find.[/i]

*I look up once more*

[i]Perhaps the answer comes not from within nor without, but both at once. But if I am to learn more of that which lies within, I must first learn of that which lies without. Thus shall it be, thus shall it not be.[/i]