What remained of the Fleet hovered high in the sky. More than half had been lost in the fight and a few disabled crafts drifted slowly towards the Fracture. Their Captains screaming hurried orders to halt their creeping decent. Surviving the Great War was feat enough, none were eager to be the first into this new Rabbit Hole.
A young mother cradling her toddler stared at the Fracture from their hiding spot. The child had cried himself to sleep on the sidelines of the battle. The small particles of dust and sand rising from the ground, slowly drifting towards the Fracture from all around the huddle pair. The young mother trying to calm herself brushed the hair of her sleeping child "shhh, shhh. Its okay my little darling. Shhh, everything will be alright." she had been doing this for hours now.
"It is beautiful. The work of a thorn bush to bloom a Rose! Magnificent!" the Antagonist bosted from the back of the mind of our Protagonist, continuing " You see? Our struggle has been for Nothing! It is here! It has been Realized!"
"This is the Start and the End! This is what its ALL been about! Everything has been building to this one point! This event! The Great War is nothing more than a simple chemical reactions personified! Come with me now! I will show you!"
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