Backtracking

It was like the same thing was happening again, the him that struggled against the wind and waves, the sea.

He fell from the windowsill to the hallway as the ground trembled, but even then, he kept looking to the sky, hoping against hope to see that Eye again. He still hadn't reconciled with Verma, and no one was taking anything from him, ever again.

Nevertheless, as a wise man once said, "Man proposes, God disposes." He watched with a frightened heart as everything in his universe grew darker and disintegrated into smoke and particles.

He shouted, "No!" and his voice echoed in this strange silence that had permeated the world for some time, but it made no difference in this gorgeous world's silent death. The last thing he saw before losing consciousness was a void white space, its expanse expanding to infinity,

and then, he lost consciousness.

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