What the hell else am I supposed to be?! It doesn't matter what either of us want!
[There's nobody and nothing. He's alone, self-sufficient, accompanied only by the guilt and regret of his proven failure--and soon, even that will probably fade away, when Kalim decides to return to his family or pass beyond the veil. He's not bound and gagged right now, not stuffed into some tiny, dark, suffocating lamp to be summoned only on his master's whim. But just as there's nothing to keep him so limited and restrained, there's nothing to keep him anchored either, nothing to help hold him together instead of unravel in a spiral of grief and helpless rage.
Who would want this..... this nothingness? What has all of this even been for, if it's all going to be so hollow in the end?]
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[There's nobody and nothing. He's alone, self-sufficient, accompanied only by the guilt and regret of his proven failure--and soon, even that will probably fade away, when Kalim decides to return to his family or pass beyond the veil. He's not bound and gagged right now, not stuffed into some tiny, dark, suffocating lamp to be summoned only on his master's whim. But just as there's nothing to keep him so limited and restrained, there's nothing to keep him anchored either, nothing to help hold him together instead of unravel in a spiral of grief and helpless rage.
Who would want this..... this nothingness? What has all of this even been for, if it's all going to be so hollow in the end?]