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"Would you stay ?"
"Who would have thought the great Nightwarden Minthara would kindly ask for some company at night ?"
"No... I meant in my mind. Our shared connection. Would you keep using it and stay ?"
"Oh-" "Nevermind, forget I even said anything. Goodnight."
"No. I can stay. I kinda want to if I'm being honest. But I thought you would want space and alone time after all that's happened."
"I thought I would too."
"What ?"
"Want space and alone time. I thought I would. But I don't. I fought with all my might to try and get my own mind back. I dreamt of the time the Absolute would finally be gone and of the freedom I would finally feel again. But this moment finally came and I... it's so silent. And empty. There's nothing but a fragment of who I used to be. I feel so lost. All alone in a mind that feels so foreign and too big. I'm not enough anymore to even fill my own mind. How weak is that ? I feel so small... It's so dark in there. And cold. And for the first time I am scared of what used to be like home... But when you're here, inside my mind, there's a warm presence, and a dim light. Suddenly, the silence doesn't feel so loud and the emptiness so crushing."
"I'm not going anywhere."