[Time continues to move. It continues to move until it - RESETs. Leaps back to its origin point. Ha ha...that's their fault, isn't it? It always has been. The special power, the power everyone was fighting to stop - no one's that cruel. Only the anomaly is that cruel.
The shape of a man draws closer. They've not been convincing enough, or perhaps he's simply the sort of person they can recognize best; the sort that holds sacrifice as the sole action one can take with the hope of meaning, and of success.
The only kind of love that isn't LOVE is sacrifice, and however well-meaning, there will always be someone who will take issue with it.
Like now.
Now, a larger hand brushes at them, and they react immediately, explosively, adrenaline-fueled and desperate, attempting to press away from him even as he reaches to steer them to safety.
"Safety" is relative, and creatures like them do not deserve it.]
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The shape of a man draws closer. They've not been convincing enough, or perhaps he's simply the sort of person they can recognize best; the sort that holds sacrifice as the sole action one can take with the hope of meaning, and of success.
The only kind of love that isn't LOVE is sacrifice, and however well-meaning, there will always be someone who will take issue with it.
Like now.
Now, a larger hand brushes at them, and they react immediately, explosively, adrenaline-fueled and desperate, attempting to press away from him even as he reaches to steer them to safety.
"Safety" is relative, and creatures like them do not deserve it.]