The light, the blue sovereign light, it led me down further into the depths. “O Vergil mine!” I cried out to it and yet the light did not respond. The light never does, it never did, and it never will. For something like that was only meant to guide, never to answer. Never meant to entertain our meaningless conversations. Perhaps I will never know what this beast truly is, perhaps not?

Part of me wonders if this is all some part of my own mind. Now if that were the case why am I in this lake [ocean]? Same goes for this light that I follow, what is that? Some sort of monster leading me towards my death, or is it something more? What am I, this mere husk of man, what then am I? All of these questions were too intriguing to not answer, yet now I didn’t have the time to dwell on them. For the light which is guiding me grows ever dimmer by the moment.

So I follow it down ever more into the fathoms of this endless ocean [lake]. Eventually the light fades away and I am left alone. Left alone here down where no one can reach me. Down where I cannot reach myself, where I am truly alone. There’s a faint stillness here yet I can smell the midnight air. Smell the sea breeze that it carries alongside it. Here I can see the moon falling below the horizon. I turn and watch in horror as the sun rises to its place in the sky. Yet it casts no light, or at least not any that can reach me down here.

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Down where the darkness survives, no, down where it thrives. For the light cannot possibly conquer it here, in a place so far removed from everything else. So far removed from me, from my desk, from life itself. I watch the world rise and yet I am not apart of it. I wait here in this melancholic silence before my ears pick up a particular resonant frequency. The sound of someone singing, yes, that is what my ears hear. Though the song is foreign to them, yet my mind finds it familiar.

So, at the behest of the song, I dive further into this ever darker abyss. Knowing full well that my return is now impossible. For I have lost the way, my guide is gone, and yet the light still remains. I carry my proverbial torch down with me as the song echoes throughout the void.