Author's Note

One may question how, exactly, the translation is able to discern between uses of a term as a proper noun and uses of the same term to mean the object in question. Besides contextual clues such as the use of verbs close or referring to the character, Æternal also employs a clear, distinct marking when utilising a symbol to refer to someone or something by using it as the thing's name, and the consensus on this is near universal.

Fate-Bound Emptiness

Fire-wandered-the-hall-of-knowledge.

There,-Cosmos-and-Truth-lay.

Fire-halted,-and-sought-to-absorb-the-breaths-on-Wind's-domain-they-shared.

Fire-grew-careless-of-the-flaws-in-its-knowledge.

"It-is-as-avoidable-as-the-revolving-of-your-deepsoulkin's-domain."

Weight-bore-a-mask-on-Truth.

Cosmos-was-as-a-font-of-sound.

Truth-spoke-of-what-could,-and-what-shouldn't.

Cosmos-bowed.

"What-then-shall-it?"

"Unknowable."

Cosmos-whirled-in-clarity,-its-Wind's-domain-means-as-the-lesser-of-Life's-children-dancing-and-crying.

Cosmos-sang-of-pain.

Truth-hushed-Cosmos's-cries.

Cosmos-sang-of-order-and-justice.

"The-all-cares-not."

Truth-sang-of-its-domain,-and-the-lack-of-bindings-on-likesoul-and-the-all.

Cosmos-sweltered,-flamed-not.

"What-of-me?"

Truth-beheld-its-likesoul-as-the-solemness-of-Death's-domain.

"It-is-of-freedom,-domain,-painful-though-may-be-it."

Cosmos-drowned.

Cosmos-left-the-halls.

Fire's-clad-shredded.

Fire-drained.

Truth-shone.

The-mountain-the-stream-and-the-glacier-erode.

"Heaven-shall-in-unbody-white-crossed-the-veil,-crossed-the-sea."

Truth-left.

Fire-screamed-in-silence,-heart-twisting.