A dim, barely visible particle of purple energy was suspended in a vast darkness, with infinite stars of all colors and brightness twinkling in its vast embrace. As these stars shone, they would sometimes disappear, absorbed into an almost instantaneous opening and closing of the darkness, never to return.

Suddenly, a pure white nova, larger by far than any other star, streaked towards one of these portals, seemingly desperate to leave the infinite void it currently inhabited. Unfortunately for it, its path brought it colliding with the dim, tiny purple particle, and with a soundless explosion, the white nova was absorbed by the purple, which grew and brightened slightly before slowly falling into the very portal the nova was speeding towards.

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A woman in a white dress, with a giant black dagger impaling her heart

A man in shining armor, fighting an eight-armed giant, eventually cutting off its head

The same man, being beheaded from behind by an old man wearing a crown in front of an appalled crowd

After coming through the portal, I finally opened my eyes.