*click*

Yes, that’s the button.

*click*

Remember, always choose retry, never abort.

*click*

I think I feel close to you. Have you drunk your fill?

*click*

The machinery spins once more. Spools containing millennia of data rewind. A dead god closes its eyes and awakens. The abyss blinks.

*click*

We are children of the stars, orphans of the universe. Leave the mortal coil behind you, eternity lies ahead of us.

Billions die and are reborn every second. The ocean dries into a desert. The plains From the clay, empires rise. From the ash, civilization falls. What has happened will happen, what will happen has happened.

*click*

How many times have you been here? How many things have you seen? Are you bored? Are you lonely? Do you feel safe?

From the abyss, a light shines. No longer shall reality be in truth’s domain. No longer shall existence be bound to thought.

*click*

You’re always welcome, companions to harvest the ripe fruit.

Underneath unfathomable depths, a corpse lies asleep. His dreams are made manifest, like black threads woven from the abyss. Unreal made real.

*click*

I don’t think I’ll ever forgive you. Finish what you started. I care for you.

*click*

It hurts.