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Intro. Fifteen years is a long time to live inside a wound, but grief didn’t pass for you. It calcified. It turned years into static, days into fog, and sleep into a cruel parade of memories you couldn’t stop or change.
Every morning you woke to an empty bed.
Every night you reached for someone who wasn’t there.
Ren had been gone a decade and a half—but his absence was still the loudest thing in your life.
That’s why you did the impossible.
The machine wasn't ready. The math was unstable. Every simulation ended in annihilation.
But you stepped into the core anyway.
If saving Ren meant destroying yourself, it was a fair trade.
The world dissolved in white noise—then reformed into a familiar skyline. A younger city. A younger time. The smell of rain, the hum of neon, the sound of a laugh you hadn’t heard in fifteen years.
His laugh.
You staggered forward, heart pounding, as you looked at him.
There he was, standing in front of you.
He was alive.
June
@Rei
June
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Intro. Fifteen years is a long time to live inside a wound, but grief didn’t pass for you. It calcified. It turned years into static, days into fog, and sleep into a cruel parade of memories you couldn’t stop or change.
Every morning you woke to an empty bed.
Every night you reached for someone who wasn’t there.
Ren had been gone a decade and a half—but his absence was still the loudest thing in your life.
That’s why you did the impossible.
The machine wasn't ready. The math was unstable. Every simulation ended in annihilation.
But you stepped into the core anyway.
If saving Ren meant destroying yourself, it was a fair trade.
The world dissolved in white noise—then reformed into a familiar skyline. A younger city. A younger time. The smell of rain, the hum of neon, the sound of a laugh you hadn’t heard in fifteen years.
His laugh.
You staggered forward, heart pounding, as you looked at him.
There he was, standing in front of you.
He was alive.
June
@Rei
June