In this moment, times have begun to act strange once again. I can feel the chilling of the cold night air begin to pick up once again, it moves fast, violently breaching my skin – almost as if it is in haste, running from something inevitable. Something that I have yet to become aware of. These moments are fleeting, and these precious times are oh-so-fragile. I can feel the coming of the end, it is almost as certain as the coming of winter itself. I can sense a presence other than my own, now come to peace and acceptance for what lies ahead. You stand before me now, so very grey and withered as you have fallen victim to the shadows presence. For in a way, we are one in the same. We have sought out this flame during these fleeting moments across blackened skies, and now, while shadows shall devour you and the final bit of light that you may hold, I shall now become the darkness that this path of a warrior for the shadows has long since prepared me for. 

For no longer, do I live for agreements and contracts made with some universal force that has long since left here – so bitter, so enraged that I would not seek to renew such agreements. For now, as this dark and cold night settles in, do I now truly accept the despair and loneliness that has so desperately been beating at my chest. For now, as I reach out my hands towards this Final flame and all it’s imminence, I can feel the burning of uncertainty begin to consume me, along with darkness alike. I can now see the shadows which have followed and clung to me ever so closely, awaiting this very moment in time begin to spiral out of control, creating a sort of chaos I had never thought to be possible.

I know now that in taking this Final Flame and in accepting what has now awoken, that fates will surely begin to settle in, along with forces I have never thought to have to know. For now, the panic has begun to settle in alongside this uncertainty, as well as the burning that this final flame contains. I am now becoming what I have always known deep down inside to be inevitable, I am now destroying all that I once thought was true during these last fleeting moments, I am now fulfilling the only path left to be fulfilled within this line for a night much darker than anything I’ve ever known has now been stirred. For now, as darkness begins to consume me, it has also become my responsibility, for we are now one.