Tying Up Loose Ends

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Severed, Never Truly Forgotten

"My mother told me about the old world, before the flood. She said it had been of a different kind. Foul. She would braid my hair and recount harrowing tales, of my father and of demons from the underworlds. She said all is forgiven but nothing forgotten.

Then the darkness in her eyes was greater than usual. And her words flowed like waves. She said all was well now the way it was. That all occupied its own space, in the past as here and now.

When she spoke of this manner, something would overcome her. She would pull my braids tightly as if to punish me for something that dwelled in a place deep within her. Something that tugged at her from the centre, like a hunger that could not be satisfied. She spoke of yesterday as though it were before her very eyes, as if today was but a veil that shrouded in shadow all that was real to her.

The old world came to haunt her like a ghost that whispered to her in a dream how to erect the new world, stone by stone.

From then on, I knew that nothing changes. That all things remain as before. The spinning wheel turns, round and round in a circle. One fate tied to the next. The thread, red like blood, that cleaves together all our deeds. One cannot unravel the knots.

But they can be severed. He severed ours, with the sharpest blade.

Yet something remains behind that cannot be severed. An invisible bond.

On many a night, he tugs at it. And then I wake with a start, knowing that nothing ceases to be. That all remains."
— Dark (Netflix)

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