One of Three Things is True

by Awdures

Reality is in flux. Dimensions spill one into another. The war is lost though the resistance remains. Of the Chaos Emeralds nothing has been seen. Of the Master Emerald no one dares ask. With illusions everywhere perhaps the truth of what has happened is impossible to know. But something must be the truth. They are lost. Or hidden. Or taken. One of these things is true...

3. Untruth?

Maybe it happened like that somewhere. Certainly a message to that effect went out on some levels of reality, a call to arms for all those willing to fight to take back their world. Perhaps that's how it arose, out of chaos and loss.

It would be nice to think so, from here in the depth of this red and stinging unreality, that strength could arise out of despair and weakness and rise so hard and fast to conquer again. That friendship could trump sheer, raw power and stand against it.

Perhaps it could.

Or perhaps among other times and worlds that tumbled and crashed together only the strongest of the resistance survived, only those who'd foreseen the worst and turned defence itself into a strength.