In the darkness was a child.


    Amidst the silence, they stood alone.


    The windless night whispered into their ear.


    Only the beating of its heart served as a reminder that they still lived.


    Standing on the edge of a bridge, the small child gazed down at the sea.


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    The endlessly deep currents churned beneath them like a pitch-black void.


    And then, the child fell.


    The child sank without a sound into the cold waters.


    The darkness suffocated them as voices flooded their mind.


    Memories of a past life bubbled away as the child faded into nothingness.


    But,