Theo: The Blood Angel of Lescatie

The Ruby Heart that continously drips hot healing blood is visited by pilgrims of man and mamono every day. It's a symbol of sacrifice, and declared a holy relic by all faiths.

Some Pagan-minded Ugaric people and mamono revere him as a troubled, angry earth god, or an incarnation of Perun. Some build icons hallowing his name, corrupting it with Theos, an old name for "god". I see mamono and human mothers leaving a small cookie (milk chocolate, Theo's favorite) in children's pockets: "Penny for the Orphan God"

All in all, an utopia is well underway. We are rebuilding, loving and procreating.

I know he isn't a god, but an unlucky sod who was tortured the moment he drew breath; drawn into a horrid existence he did not ask about; nevertheless giving up his life to protect the world he did not love. But I hope with all my heart that wherever he is, his soul is with his family, in a plane of existence unmarred by horrors of sentient apathy; a world where no one is violated by any way whatsoever. We will take care of his legacy by any means necessary, and make sure no one suffers fates like his contemporaries.

Theo, rest in peace.

You are free, wherever you are.

Slade, Retired Governor of Temirburg.

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Deep across the void, a swarm of light, thousands of souls glided on cosmic streams of the stars...

Deep across the endless stars and realities, it noticed a sound unheard, a sight unseen, and surged towards the light.

To live again,

To have another chance at existence.

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The scientist blinked incredulously. The particle accelerator had reached a critical threshold, releasing enormous waves of neutrinos. Before he could call CERN command-