Story Time 87 (Days 468-478)

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As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

THE SHORT AND SWEET
The heroes had entered into "The World As The Story Sees It," a patchwork realm overlooking The End of The World, a void of Darkness held back by an invisible wall and a net of the Story's magic. The heroes realized that they could no longer just defend—and began putting their minds towards strategies to defeat the Darkness once and for all.

The heroes visited several dead worlds connected to Aather through Rips in the world borders—the Floating City, the Academy, the Hive, the Naming Lands—and helped awaken the long-sleeping hearts of the worlds and connect them to Aather, along with their bonds and the bonds to many other worlds. This spell gave them the power to tackle the Darkness and their own fears.

But there was much more darkness, still. And the heroes discovered the Darkness could not be fully defeated as it was tied too heavily to the Story. They took a risk—to separate the Story from the Storysona, and the Darkness from them both. They poured their feelings out in response to the Storysona's plea, and two knights returned from their long quest for The Sword That Cuts Stories after months of searching, severing the Story from the Darkness, leaving just the fading Story, and the person left behind . . .

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