"A good friend has become blurred. I am unable to see him…no one can find
this man. His outline has become indistinct, unclear. He is hard to pick
out from the background noise. Even his voice is static. Distant. An
echo. Is he becoming one with his surroundings? Is it a kind of bliss?
Will he manifest other augmentations? Will the translucent fact of being
be made physical?"
-The New Sins
The sea was beautiful when it was like this. Calm, still, the white crests of the waves foaming in the air in lazy puffs. And the reflection it caused on the sky… thin wisps of clouds on a churning sky, the varying shades of blue shifting like a melody.
As he stood at the edge of the cliff, it seemed almost impossible to tell the sky from the sea, the waves from the clouds.
The world had long since been simple and now just /was/, all the lines blurred to nothing and he was stuck trying to remember where the boundaries had once been.
And he was beginning to feel himself fade into it.
He turned at the sound of his name, Edge approaching him.
He turned back to the sky and sea that no longer held a difference, just a blur of blue stretched into eternity. He turned back to Edge.
"I can still fly."
Arms stretched out like wings, he closed his eyes and dove into the sky.
When he opened them, the warm sand was to his back, the sea weaving in his ears, around his head, down his body. And Edge stood over him, watching him with sad eyes.
"I can't see the difference." He was a lost beam of sun, wrapped in sky. "I don't know what's real and what isn't."
"It's whatever you want it to be."
"I don't want it to be this."
"Then change it."
He closed his eyes with a smile, head tilting back as the sea filled around them, drifting with the waves.
"Find your bliss, Kain. You deserve it as much as anyone."
-The New Sins
The sea was beautiful when it was like this. Calm, still, the white crests of the waves foaming in the air in lazy puffs. And the reflection it caused on the sky… thin wisps of clouds on a churning sky, the varying shades of blue shifting like a melody.
As he stood at the edge of the cliff, it seemed almost impossible to tell the sky from the sea, the waves from the clouds.
The world had long since been simple and now just /was/, all the lines blurred to nothing and he was stuck trying to remember where the boundaries had once been.
And he was beginning to feel himself fade into it.
He turned at the sound of his name, Edge approaching him.
He turned back to the sky and sea that no longer held a difference, just a blur of blue stretched into eternity. He turned back to Edge.
"I can still fly."
Arms stretched out like wings, he closed his eyes and dove into the sky.
When he opened them, the warm sand was to his back, the sea weaving in his ears, around his head, down his body. And Edge stood over him, watching him with sad eyes.
"I can't see the difference." He was a lost beam of sun, wrapped in sky. "I don't know what's real and what isn't."
"It's whatever you want it to be."
"I don't want it to be this."
"Then change it."
He closed his eyes with a smile, head tilting back as the sea filled around them, drifting with the waves.
"Find your bliss, Kain. You deserve it as much as anyone."