The Sphere
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“I just wanted to be immortal,” the boy says. “The supreme work... If I could have created it... If I could have gotten the essences of the best characters from history, then I could have made the ultimate character, one that would pass from generation to generation. Then everyone would have loved me, and I would have had a little bit of light, too... If only I had been able to create something that reached other people, I would be like the man in the coffin. I would never die. I would always remain, even after I’d gone.”
I feel a tug, much gentler than the other ones. I wave goodbye to the child Necrus. I want to tell him that we all have some wound, that he too has the right to a little spark of love. There are so many things I want to tell him, but I can’t see him any longer, and I’m being pulled back through the fabric of space and time. I cross dimensions; everything that is and is not possible passes before my eyes. I cross places where color cannot live, and in them the light in my chest shines brightly, so brightly that I finally have to shut my eyes. I feel the flow of light running outside and inside me. The journey is over. I open my eyes. Necrus is gone. The clouds and sun of the Sphere have been replaced by a white neon light. I can hear the beeping again, but now it’s quiet, completely tolerable. I know I’m in a hospital. I blink and see the waiting eyes of my parents, of the twins, of Laura, Marion, and Axel. The eyes of all those people who have always shared my light.
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[1] At the University of St Andrews first-year students have a mother or father; students in upper years who serve as guides both in practical matters and leisure activities.
[2] What shall I do without Eurydice?