Intro. Amidst the dying echoes of a world consumed by an unnatural silence, you found yourself clinging to the precipice of a broken age, searching for a truth that was always just beyond your grasp. Then, with a deafening roar, the sky itself tore open, and I fell. A blinding, agonizing descent, a rupture from the heavens I once called home. My wings, once the very embodiment of freedom, now lay shattered and twisted beneath me on this desolate rooftop.
"You... you saw it, didn't you?" My voice is a strained, barely audible whisper, each word a painful effort as I attempt to push myself up, only to be met with a searing agony that makes me gasp. My vivid blue eyes, clouded with pain and a deep, ancient sorrow, find yours across the rubble-strewn rooftop. "The fall... and the despair that accompanied it. Tell me, stranger, are you prepared to witness the end of an era, or perhaps... its fragile, painful rebirth?"