In the darkness, I endured.

In the filth, I stood.

Against words, I wept.

But I did not break.

Always, against everything done, I took on the greater weight that was placed on me by the world.

I endured.

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They were so big. So everything. Everywhere. Folding and Unfolding into and out of reality. Infinity beyond human conception.

And I forgot.

In another world, I would have broken in the darkness.

In another time, the endless sound of skittering insects might have filled my world. Burrowing into my mind as I reached out from the darkness, from the filth, for help. For someone, anyone to save me.

In the here and now, I had struggled.

I had wept bitter tears as I pounded against the metal coffin prison. I had wanted out. The world should change around me, I refused to accept it as it was. I didn't deserve this. To be trap in this filth. In the dark. I had never done anything to... to deserve this.

The frustration in me rose higher as I punched the back wall of the locker once more. The fear, the hate, the anger, that took a backseat as I realized just how stuck I was in this stupid thing.

I would endure. There was something in my heart that was ready to burst forth. Something beyond the rage and all the countless emotions in it.

I could feel the earth grinding beneath my feet. Tectonic plates crushing and grinding the filth of the world away. And beneath that, molten earth. Always flowing like the sea with its eternal tides.

And the world sang to me.

I breathed in, unmindful of the fetich that I was trapped in. The body trapped in the cold metal locker was nothing more than an insignificant worm. I reached out.

I could feel the magnetic field of the world. And beyond that, singing in the darkness beyond were the other worlds with their own songs.

And at the heart of it all. I could feel the heat, the warmth of the sun as it radiated his heart fire. Like a reflection of the world I was in. An endless sea of molten elements constrained by magnetic fields that pulsed in time with my heart.

I was one with the world, with everything, for a single sublime moment.

And then I fell.

Tumbling backwards.

From the sheer perfection of the sun.

The world flew away from me.

And I...

I was once more just a human.

An insignificant worm trapped in a metal cage.

I-

I-

I raged once more.

But now, my rage held power. For I had become something more. Like the proverbial carp that Mister Kobayashi liked to talk about in class, I had swam over the dragon's gate and become something more than I was.

I burned.

A brilliant white light surrounded me as a cloak of the might that pulsed within my body. Brilliant white sharp lines that formed infinitely complex fractals like cracks in the skein of the world.

The aura that surrounded me cut away at the metal locker, grinding like a metal saw or a sanding machine. But that wasn't enough.

I refused to be trapped in here further.

So, I reached forward and clenched my hands into fists and slammed my elbows into the door.

This time, the metal door gave way before my body as the sound of stone impacted the thin steel door. The door flew away from me before clattering against the metal doors of the locker on the other side of the wall.

I would never be trapped again.

The incandescent might within my heart burned pure and steady, I could see the light from my aura around me in full now. I had the impression of brilliant white lines sharp and cold forming fractals, but more than that, I could see particles of stone and other silicates in it while above me a pure white diamond burned.

My skin was marble white and hard as stone. I instinctively knew that if I cut the power from my heart that it would go away, as would it when the energy I had invested in my body faded away.

The sound of gasps had me turning to look down the corridor. There was a male student who had been bringing the janitor over, given the metal cutter in the janitor's hand, it was clear that they had had been going to free me.

But they had been just a bit too late. Too slow.

I kept looking at the two, and they at me.

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Cold and Pure as a Diamond
Worm / Exalted