A/N: Kaoru's POV. It's supposed to be fragmented.
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Humanity is beautiful. Beautiful in its simplicity, in its singular wholeness.
To think that one of their own would throw it all away for an ideal, an ideal of perfection that can never be achieved.
To separate the barriers that make you beautiful.
// Man can never completely erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone.//
Alone, yes. Your voices sound in the deep, each distinct, each alone. Where we sing in unison, the song of humanity is one of harmony.
How can anyone think to break the melody?
// You are delicate like glass. Your heart, your soul, are fragile.//
Fundamentally alone, yes. Separated by the barriers you construct, against the hurt.
But there is love, my Lilin. Love.
Why must everyone be made to pay for the misgivings of one?
//I think I may have been born just to meet you.//
Ah, my light in the darkness, my hope for your people. I break the song of my brethren to guide you. I fulfill my name while condemning myself.
I care not. For you shall live.
// .born from Adam, born from man's antithesis.//
That which they fear most. To fight for survival, Man will use his enemy.
// I do not understand//
At the end of my existence, for it cannot be life. Life is to live, and that is what the Lilin do. I, I merely exist.
And at the end, there will be only you.
//This is the light of my soul, a sacred territory in which no one may intrude//
But conquest, but command, but dominate! We are creatures of power and light, and although we can never live together, we can choose.
I choose life.
I choose you.
//This is mankind's fate. The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow//
As it was meant to be.
As it should be.
//Only one life form can be chosen to evade the destruction and seize the future. And you are not the existence that should die//
So keep singing, my Lilin.
The choice is yours.
Don't let the song die.
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Humanity is beautiful. Beautiful in its simplicity, in its singular wholeness.
To think that one of their own would throw it all away for an ideal, an ideal of perfection that can never be achieved.
To separate the barriers that make you beautiful.
// Man can never completely erase this sadness, because all men are fundamentally alone.//
Alone, yes. Your voices sound in the deep, each distinct, each alone. Where we sing in unison, the song of humanity is one of harmony.
How can anyone think to break the melody?
// You are delicate like glass. Your heart, your soul, are fragile.//
Fundamentally alone, yes. Separated by the barriers you construct, against the hurt.
But there is love, my Lilin. Love.
Why must everyone be made to pay for the misgivings of one?
//I think I may have been born just to meet you.//
Ah, my light in the darkness, my hope for your people. I break the song of my brethren to guide you. I fulfill my name while condemning myself.
I care not. For you shall live.
// .born from Adam, born from man's antithesis.//
That which they fear most. To fight for survival, Man will use his enemy.
// I do not understand//
At the end of my existence, for it cannot be life. Life is to live, and that is what the Lilin do. I, I merely exist.
And at the end, there will be only you.
//This is the light of my soul, a sacred territory in which no one may intrude//
But conquest, but command, but dominate! We are creatures of power and light, and although we can never live together, we can choose.
I choose life.
I choose you.
//This is mankind's fate. The thread of human hope is spun with the flax of sorrow//
As it was meant to be.
As it should be.
//Only one life form can be chosen to evade the destruction and seize the future. And you are not the existence that should die//
So keep singing, my Lilin.
The choice is yours.
Don't let the song die.