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It was a particularly rough night for Ceph. No matter what distraction he sought, the faces of the dead lurked behind his eyes.
“You all right?” Old Tom asked.
“Fine.”
“You don’t sound it,” Nael said.
“Just—tired,” Ceph said. But he could tell they didn’t buy it.
“You don’t have to put on a brave face,” Tom said. “Not for us.”
But Ceph didn’t do it for them. He did it for himself.
Sometimes, it all felt so… final. For so many of them, it just ended, and Ceph was left alone once again. Always alone.
Nael seemed to stare at him from beneath the bandage over his eyes. “None of us are alone on the journey. And the journey never ends. Do you know the story of Cain, the Twilight Prince?”
“God of outcasts,” Ceph said. “Leads the dead to the Shadowrealm.”
“Forever outcast, forever wandering,” Nael said. Then he picked up his guitar and began to play.
I come from the waste
The outcast
I come through the shadow and dust
The twilight of the west
I wander
I don’t belong, never allowed to rest
Fate is forever, I’m marked for my sins
I serve only the Queen, myself, and the wind
The world’s at my feet
I have everywhere to be
And nowhere to go
Your feet are heavy
You tire
I come through the shadow and sand
From the twilight of the end
To find you
To take you away from your land
You know that it’s come, the end that you fear
He comes, I follow, the Queen’s Land is near
The world’s at my feet
I have everywhere to be
And nowhere to go
I’ll never find rest
But I’ll take you to yours
A rest without sleep
Lost but ever onwards
Your journey’s not done
Your time’s just begun
For the end of all things
Is not the end of all things
Take your first step.
You are new.
Reborn.
The journey doesn’t end, it never ends.
I have wandered the worlds
For eons.
Outcast.
It never ends. Never ends.
Infinity stretches before us, a hand in the dark.
In the shadow.
Take it. Let it guide. Follow. Eyes open
Wide.
We are outcast. We wander forever.
It never ends.
And I wouldn’t want it to.
The world’s at your feet
You have nowhere to be
And everywhere to go
The world’s at my feet
I have everywhere to be
And nowhere to go.
