Chapter 155: Source Origin(5)
Cades jumped while running ahead, having crossed the entirety of the bone plate as slowly as he could, praying to not have to jump, praying that he had been wrong instead of right as most people wished to be, but he already knew that he was right.
When he finally jumped, he didn't scream, he didn't cry anymore, he didn't fear anymore, he felt at home, be it only for a moment, and he began to think that it, perhaps, wouldn't have been so bad to fall for all of eternity, free as a bird.
Then gravity got a hold of him, however twisted it might be within this endless realm that he knew to be part of the original Cades, not the two twisted fractures of him that now resided within what he could only assume to be the self, the mana, or the being, whatever it might be called.
However, he didn't wish to die, he would never wish to die, for he was not real, and he knew that.
Cades, or whatever he might be, wished to possess, he wished to hold something in his hands, and not these false ones that were given to him in the form of an illusion, he wished to hold something within his actual hands, or perhaps his actual hand seeing as the other him had lost that as well, he wished to have a coin, he wished to eat meat and fruit, even though ehetrians didn't eat meat, he wished to experience, and he knew he wouldn't be able to, he knew he was stuck in this nothing, he knew he was suffering.
Yet, there was something calling for him, something residing atop but hiding in his heart, something Cades could not understand, but he still understood, something that Cades followed, a invisible, eternal, Call he heeded, a call to go upwards, a call to climb, a call to fall, a call for his wishes to be fulfilled.
And though he knew it was a lie, though he knew that no wish would be fulfilled without a price, he also knew that he was lost, he knew that he had nowhere else to go, and as such, knowing of his own situation, was it not natural to follow the only something that was around, however dangerous it might turn out to be in the later turns..