The Abandoned Luna's Return
Real.
"We... we're still here," he whispered.
"We're here," I said, tears finally falling.
I looked at Sarah. She was sitting by the obsidian pillar, her head resting against the stone. She looked exhausted, but her eyes were clear.
"Is it over now, Elara?" she asked.
I looked at the pillar—the prison of the goddess, the archive of our pain. And then I looked at the horizon.
In the distance, the first sun of the In-Between was rising. It wasn't the yellow sun of Earth or the green sun of the simulation. It was a soft, pale **Grey**.