Fantendo 10th Anniversary Showcase/Previews/Existence Software

This phrase has burned itself into me.
Into my mind, body, and soul.
I don't know what it means.
A secret?
Is this world,
This small world in which I live,
Hiding something from me?
But what?
What could it be hiding?
Is it related to that man?
The one whose face is covered in a veil of shadows?
The one claiming I was Nothing?
He told me to stop my games.
To bring an end to the suffering.
Does he know the secret?
The one that has driven me insane,
And shattered my being?
He told me, that one time:
"Stop gambling away their lives.
Your games cause others to suffer,
Have you no empathy?
No care!?"
I live alone, in solitude.
Just me, 
That man,
My pen, my papers,
And that empty tome.
The tome of 10,000 empty pages,
Waiting for its true author.
Until I know of this secret,
Of the world beyond these walls,
I can do not a thing.
Is this life one I wrought myself?
In a past life?
In a time long before these walls?
My name is Solum.
With this pen, I write my thoughts.
Through these pages I live
A life not mine.
Yet not, all the same.
...
Yesterday, the man returned.
Without a word, he stormed into my room.
He stole it all.
Confiscated the papers,
My pen.
Everything I had written up until that point.
The many stories I dreamed of.
But then, today.
When I awoke, they had returned.
Did the man have a change of heart?
Or did someone else return them?
This time I'll keep them hidden.
My thoughts.
My being.
All of what I am.
I will hide it away in the crack in the wall.
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