Kiara POV“Can suffering survive meaning?”The question echoes across reality.Not as a challenge.Not as a weapon.As doubtThe Observer has spent eternity believing it possessed the answer.The perfect answer.The final answer.Now it is questioning itselfAnd that tiny crack changes everything.The darkness covering the galaxies trembles.Stars begin returning one by one.Like distant candles relighting in an endless night.BOOMThe heartbeat returns.Weak.BOOMStronger.BOOMAlive.Theodore points dramatically“Ladies and gentlemen, we have successfully given existential uncertainty to a cosmic certainty monster.”Eryndor sighs“You continue describing impossible events in the worst possible way.”Theodore nods proudly“And yet accurately.”For the first time in what feels like foreverLaughter spreadsSmall.Gentle.Human.The Observer WatchesCarefully.“You laugh despite danger.”Theodore shrugs“We laugh because of danger.”A pause.“Sometimes that’s the only way through it.”
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