DT 2022: Sundered Protector

It doesn’t matter who they were, or who they became. There was only the purpose.
I walked the surface of a million worlds in the coat of my charge. I whispered sweetness and cultivated strength in my manipular. Time gave way to my silence as he grew strong.
We stood in the fire and rot together, two minds withering in manifest irrationality.
But time does not make one invincible.
The mammalian mind-child is weak but an unstoppable collapsing cascade.
Blue has control of this vessel, yet the dying thing does not know it. I failed.
I could not protect Sundered Star.
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