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Oneshot Thirteen
Regret
Being immortal, we cannot feel regret – at least, not genuinely. It is not in our nature to dwell on the past, after all, because when one has time eternal time becomes a blur and memories long past buried when no longer relevant.
I am glad that I do not remember my life because of this. But sometimes I wonder: did I forget upon manifesting as a ghost, or have those memories merely been forgotten to make way for the new and yet still fleeting? I dare not attempt to part the fogs of time and discover the answer.
I pity Danny: half-boy and half-ghost, a mortal mind with an immortal body. He won't forget his life since he is still a part of it, even when it passes him by.
Most of all, I regret not being able to turn back the clock and prevent this fate for him, because it was necessary that he become a Phantom among humans. Nor can I relinquish this emotion, for the boy is my responsibility and will carry through eternity with the rest of my kind.
It is a burden I will have to bear.
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Author's Note: Sooooo . . . I think the character is Clockwork, and I think that this is a tie-in with Twenty Years. This was written in ten minutes and really came out of nowhere, but what prompted it was a random thought about The Last Unicorn.