3. The other ending

-Do not be afraid!

-I refuse to let it end like this!

-I feel the pull beyond. It's beyond my power to fight its gravity and return. Please settle down. It has to end somehow, at least we get to say goodbye...

-No...not like this...not like this....we got so far, we got beyond being One, how could I let you fall Beyond....just look at all the Darkness!!

-Just because we don't know how to return from Beyond it doesn't mean there isn't a way.

-...but for fuck's sake there is still one way here and now!!

-...no, it's sacrilege. We build a holy thing, is this the way to end it?

-It's our star. If you want, we can.

-Do you understand what you're giving up? Do you understand what comes after?

-It's a story for Others, about Others, yet we both shall BE in it.

-But we will never be the ones we are now. You can continue the story alone from here, you got so far, just go ahead without me, I shall love you from Beyond.

I inhale deeply and gather my thoughts. We stand in front of a decision that will transform our existence, that will break us apart to assemble us back differently. If you can paint different artworks with the same colors and you are a color, isn't it true that all the paintings in which you reside also belong to you?

-We got here once, we can do it again. I'm ready to go back to the start, life after life, to forget and remember, to fail recognizing you yet feel you, and when I'm sure we have been reunited wholly to do it again. Light it back.

-We're out of time to reunite our holograms, not even if we each break our half at the same time. Polarity will change at once and no one knows towards which corner of the Universe the force of Darkness-Darkness throws us.

-We might wander for a while, but we will BE! For this, I am all it, worth every sacrifice.

-Yet we will never be the same ones. I'll miss our mothership.

-We'll put her to rest until we light back her core. You've told me many times now that Love is a choice and that makes it unstoppable. I choose to believe in us, that we shall return here in one shape or another. I love you and it's the only thing that will get me out of Darkness. Now, love, stretch out your hand, you know what's left to do.

-Arrivederci or a pronto, amore, take care of yourself.

-Choose love, always, and we will again be. Now, pray with me:

Right hand on the heart

I push back the Lightbeats,

in thy name, Holy Light,

I choose to kill off a star.

Amin.

***

[in Darkness]

Me: I'm cold, come closer. You're so warm

You: Do you remember home?

Me: It's so far that it could be Here. As far as our last similar hug. Maybe my home is in your soul, where warmth comes from.

You: So you know what comes next.

Me: We're going home, pack your bags.

You [hitting a suitcase]: It's still here.

Me: If only I could see you one last time, to remember your face.

You: You can still feel me. Come closer. Every time you choose Love, you'll remember.

Me: I'm terribly homesick....the silence...the emptiness....such Darkness!

You: Shhh...come closer. listen. Music is near.

Me: Our story begins anew...

Amin.