::What Really Counts::

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A/N: My god. WRC is almost over... Barely three more chapters left... I don't want to let it go.... No...

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'So you are scared.'

'Scared? Of course. Maybe I think too much, 'Atce, but I see the world in a glance. World weariness wears down on me, like the last sounds of a flute and harp. IT sinks, deeper than my soul should allow, but I still cannot help it.'

'And what would you do?'

'I do not know.'

'You know, Dale, I know you do. somewhere deep down inside of you, you know.'

'And why do I deserve such compassion?'

'From someone who has seen you through most of this? I think you do.'

'Would I accept it?'

'I think you already have.'

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'And truth, then?'

'A miserable outcome of fantasy.'

'To put it so frankly?'

'It freezes me. Doubtlessly, I have already been frozen, many times. I find no hope now in the sun.'

'Then you must find it elsewhere.'

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'From where do I leave so that to where would I turn?'

'Where would you go now that you have never left?'

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'And what about the rest of the world, Dale?'

'What about the rest of life, 'Runn?'

'Why could you not face it firstly?'

'Why can I not face it now?'

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'So where will you now leave your senses and stop your time?'

'What time more do I have, 'Moren? What time did I loose? Do I have anything? Or have I left my senses behind already?'

'Have your senses even yet been exposed?'

'What do you mean?'

'Have you ever truly breathed, Dale? Felt the wind? Tasted the sun? Have you ever escaped from life to life itself?'

'Would life still unlocked both its doors to me?'

'Who ever told you life had doors in the first place?'

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'Must you run so, Dale?'

'Must life pursue, Mora?'

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'You shy away from us.'

'We were never all the same.'

'We never have and never shall be, not any of us. Not Moren or Mora or Runn or me are the same.'

'You speak in different sense than I.'

'You speak in different tone than I. Why must you be so dead to the world? You were always part of us.'

'I never let myself be.'

'Then why restrain yourself even now?'

'When you loose yourself, meaning looses meaning, and time is defective and faulty.'

'Time and self is nothing. Can you not see? Meaning is incomplete.'

'Then how will I discover truth and come to terms with it?'

'What about looking only within yourself?'

'You speak no sense, 'Atce.'

'I never have and never will, Dale. But you always seem to make something of it.'

'I never. You spoke, and I followed, being enough was your advice to cover my back.'

'There was never anything to shield yourself from.'

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'The song of the heart cannot be quenched.'

'But it cannot be reignited when it goes out.'

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'Take heart.'

'My heart has left me.'

'You still breathe and see, why you do not understand is all that is left.'

'Because I will myself not to.'

'Why stop the pain to make it greater?'

'Because I cannot take pain. I would wilt.'

'You already have wilted, Dale, if you dare not face it.'

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'I think I understand. The last link, the place I never looked.'

'What do you mean, Dale?'

'I think I know. I think I'm beginning to live again.'

'How?'

'By knowing.'

'Knowing what?'

'Something I never knew before.'

'Then how did you find out?'

'By letting myself go.'

'You speak no sense, Dale.'

'That's because I have never spoken before, 'Atce.'