the crawlers cover the floor

Teen And Up Audiences | Major Character Death | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

Other | for MachineryField | 100 words | 2023-03-09 | the lamb | AO3

Z (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


Were I, as the de facto and de jure arbiter of the endless now, able to be conversant with any manifestation of "myself"...well, that would only aid towards humans' more "austere" impulses.

If the collective will of humanity has but one impulse, and that impulse is followed, it must be wrong. Any impulse pursued following deliberation must be right.

Such is their logic.

No relationship is sustained within these proceedings, all inevitable within the flow.

I do not think. I simply am.

Loneliness does not consume me.

Humans, however, have always been consumed.

This tragedy has already been written.