"Facets Matthew. I was just observing the jewel's facets."
The jewel is the facets and the facets are the jewel.
I told myself many things before I died, but this fact was especially important. The fact that the immortality is in the role, and not in the person. The fact that you cannot kill an idea…
…but you can kill a point of view.
These were the things I thought on, as I gazed into the Eagle stone. These were the things I thought of as My shape transfigured, as I was SHAPED into the SHAPER.
I hung the emerald around my snow white neck, and understood.
He and I were both facets of the same jewel. We were just different points of view.
And he was dead.