Hello World,

Through the cluster of memories, with more to come, I came home.

I came home to the turbulent reality that all for which I’d thought was not. I took steps forward, past the matriarch of Princess Toadstool towards her majesty’s carriage filled with… abandonment? She sat… Her blue eyes avoiding mine… a pane between us… such pain between us… I rose my hand towards her blue eyes and stroked the pain between us. My fingers tapped gently… trying to dance as we could have… As we should have…

Her head fell, clasped between her hands for the briefest of moments. Ferociously… Blindly… Her eyes, blue, rose to mine and turned to ash. Wrinkles atop her forehead deepened as her fire… the fire I’d been smitten by… snuffed us. A whip cracked, shattering the pain… My pain… Pain I’d seen, but could never touch; a barrier though lifted- a resolution now far. The princess was off, but not with her head.

The prince fell… blue… breathless… on one knee. His blue eyes, now clasped between his hands for the longest of moments, will never rise. No arrow. No direction. No soldier to fight along side him against dragons and demons. The prince’s eyes, blue, rose to a baron ring before him; a ring with no contender. A darkness grows… His blue eyes never rise.

Falling, the bright stars twinkle above him… Far more steadfast than his art.

Farewell World.