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I could not imagine the peace that I always wanted to have. “If you would be given a choice, would you choose to be born in this kind of life?” My eyes landed at him when he asked me that question. It was very random and I am not expecting him to ask that. “No,” I answered. “I would choose to live a normal life. No need to fight for my life and to kill merciless people.” I meant it all. However, what can I even do? I was not given a chance to choose and I am stuck with this kind of life.

"Every choice you make will lead you closer to life—or to eterna l wandering. Choose wisely." And with that, he was gone.

Leon couldn’t help but ask, "Do these ordinary humans have no choice but to live in such lowly conditions? Don’t they have any other options?" Elian's gaze grew deep as if pondering how to answer this question. After a brief pause, his voice turned somber. "Most humans, especially those at the bottom, often don’t have a choice. Their lives are filled with uncertainty, and for many of them, it’s simply about surviving, holding on to whatever fragile thread of life they can."

As a choice. The best kind.

“Why choose existence?” I repeated the First Dark’s question. “Because choosing is what makes us alive. Because the ability to decide, even when all choices are terrible, is what gives life meaning.” The presence shifted. Not aggressive. Just considering. “Meaning. Small things speak of meaning like it is real. Like it is not just a story you tell yourselves to ignore the truth. The truth that everything ends. Everything fades. Everything returns to nothing eventually.”

I sit next to her. She lifts the lock of red in my hair. “It’s begun.” I nod again and look at the ground. “Why so sad?” She leans forward to see my face. “I don’t want to die.” I mumble. She smiles. “It’s your purpose. You have no choice.” I whip my head to her. “Why can’t I have a choice? Why does everyone have to make my choices for me?” “You are an important creature, Mia. You’re love and power makes this world thrive.” She tucked my hair behind my ear.

Grayson lowers towards my ear, and his warm breath tickles the hairs of my neck. "Grow come Leila. Eventually when you have to take a life, you'll make the hardest decision of your life, but then you're going to choose between them or you. One advice" He pauses to allow his words to sink in. "choose you" I know he's not lying, I know this world can be cruel and that it will try it's hardest to break me, but I also don't believe in lowering my standards to meet it's own. That would make me the same as them. Don't they have nightmares when they take a life? Doesn't the guilt eat at them? I hope it eats at them. They deserve it.

"Jin... pag-isipan mo ng mabuti." Ang mga sinabi nila ... parang pako na gusto kong magpasya kaagad... ngunit ... may bagay na bumabagabag sa akin... magagawa ko bang magpasya... kaya ko bang bumawi ng buhay nang nabubuhay... Hindi.

The choice is yours. "You are really making me an offer I can not refuse, eh? "I murmured. "Welcome to real life, Mr. Badur. You chose this life... or you can believe it was chosen for you. Now let me not only help you survive it, let me help you refine it."

Every single piece of it had been chosen, by someone, at a moment when the choice could have gone differently. That was what made it matter