I am encapsulated in a place with no border, its blistering white light blinds me on this perpetual journey. I am alone without my shadow to accompany me. This place turns me around and every step has no meaning. There's only this floor. There's only this whiteness. And a soft breeze.
I think this is the way out, if I follow the wind, I'll be free.
I'll be free, right?
My paws have been lead by my dedication to logic for too long, and now they're being lead by something else.
A million voices break open the sky, their laughter reverberating in me, rolling in like a thunderous cloud, however intangible. Some of those voices are Louder than the others. Who do they belong to? I recognise them. Why do I recognise them? I never made people laugh.
Fear stuffs my throat, cotton ball chuckle; their laughter is awfully contagious, they're haunting me!
I'm not here for a reason you or I could ever understand, that would mean I can remember why I'm here. I can't remember much of anything. The answers are coming, I can feel it. This is my transitioning.
Shadow the Hedgehog: the Ultimate Lifeform died today.
My resting place.
I've been in so much pain. I've caused so much pain. But I hope I can rest now, along with everyone else. I want to believe that is the truth, anything else would be too much for me to bare. I want to breathe my last and join my friend's sides, or maybe I want to wake up as a child again, deserving of a better life.
Actually... I don't really know What I want. That's okay though, everything ends, and everything happens for a reason. That's what people told me. I am privileged to have lived as long as I did. To have lived beyond having a legacy? that's a blessing. I oversaw legacies.
It's been so long I've forgotten a few people along the way. I'm sorry to have never made it up to them, to thank those who helped me and to forgive those who wronged me.
You can't do everything, Shadow, and now you can't do anything else but wander aimlessly, here, where there is just that incessant Laughter-!
It is quiet. It appears that the loudest thing of all is my own thoughts.
Time to rest for a little while, then I shall continue my search.