They sent an entity called TERMOS—
the End Itself.
He came not to fight me,
but to understand me.
We sat beneath a tree older than time,
and he asked:
> "Why do you keep going?"
I answered:
> "Because I'm not trying to reach the end.
I'm trying to love what lives before it."
He was silent.
Then he said:
> "Then you're not a threat, VARELITH.
You're a beginning disguised as closure."