

If only he too wasn’t rotting away in his own corpse. Scattered Shells and Stones was often regarded as the sweetest one. If only he hadn't been destroyed when she was young. Broken Mist knew the most about her illness, and could have helped her. If only he hadn't collapsed just five cycles later.

An Empty Sky was her senior, and was the one who initiated the search for a cure. If only that hadn't harmed her more than it helped. Silent Clouds was her best friend, and had tried the hardest of everyone. In a last-ditch effort to preserve herself, the Iterator flees from her home to seek guidance from someone she knows only from stories.Įven after hundreds of cycles, the others still desperately tried to save her. After cycles of suffering, her local group failing to find a way to heal their youngest member, there is only one thing she can think of. Somewhere to the far, far north, a young Iterator suffers a terrible affliction.
