Traitors, mutants and heretics rebel in unprecedented numbers. WITH A FINAL WHISPERED PRAYER, THE DREAMER HURLS HERSELF FROM THE VOID, AND INTO THE CRUCIBLE OF WAR.ĪN AGE OF DARKNESS It seems that the end of days must surely be nigh.
IF THIS IS TO BE HER LAST BATTLEFIELD, THEN THE DREAMER WILL FACE IT UNFLINCHING. THERE CAN NEVER BE REST FOR ONE SUCH AS SHE. ALREADY ITS COLOURS HAVE GROWN MUTED AND DRAB. THE DREAMER LINGERS UPON THE THRESHOLD OF THE WORLD THAT IS NO WORLD. HER WEARINESS RECEDES, WASHED AWAY BY RENEWED PURPOSE. ELUSIVE MEMORY RETURNS, AND HER STRENGTH WITH IT. THE DREAMER’S HAND CLOSES AROUND THE SWORD. SHE KNOWS BETTER THAN ANY THAT THE ONLY FAILURE WORSE THAN DEFEAT IS NOT TO FIGHT AT ALL. THE FADING FRAGMENT OF A DREAM THAT WILL NEVER BE. SHE IS ALONE THE FIRST AND LAST OF A GRAND DESIGN NEVER REALISED. BUT IF SHE DOES NOT SHOULDER THIS RESPONSIBILITY, THEN WHO WILL? THE DREAMER KNOWS THERE IS NO OTHER. THAT THE PEACE SHE EARNED LONG AGO MIGHT AT LAST BE HERS. A PART OF HER – THAT LAST REMNANT OF MORTALITY – WISHES THE BURDEN WOULD PASS TO ANOTHER. ONE DAY SHE WILL SALLY FORTH, AND SHE WILL NOT RETURN. EACH TIME SHE JOURNEYS FROM THE WORLD THAT IS NO WORLD, SHE DOES SO DIMINISHED, A PIECE OF HER LOST FOREVER IN THE CACKLING VOID, A FEAST FOR THE DAMNED. A WORLD DROWNED IN BLOOD AND FIRE, AND THE GALAXY TORN ASUNDER AMIDST DARK LAUGHTER. IMAGES SPILL ACROSS THE DREAMER’S THOUGHTS. AND YET… AND YET… THE COLOURS PART BEFORE A GLEAM OF SILVER. SHE PITIES THE SELF-THAT-WAS FOR ITS WEAKNESS, ITS INFIRMITY. A TIME BEFORE THE DREAM, BEFORE HER TRUE PURPOSE WAS REVEALED BEFORE SHE WAS CHOSEN, AND SHE WAS STILL A VESSEL OF FLESH AND BLOOD. THE DREAMER RECALLS A TIME WHEN SHE WAS AT THE MERCY OF EMOTION, OF MORTAL FRAILTY. THEY ARE THE EMBERS OF EMOTION, NEITHER HOT NOR COLD, GATHERED BY AGELESS HANDS TO STOKE A BLAZE BEYOND THE STARS. EVEN IN THE DREAM, SHE FEELS THEIR CARESS.
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