Not while breath clings to the hollows of my thought.
Not while even one ember remains
beneath the ash of what I was.
They want surrender.
They want me still,
folded, forgotten
a relic caked in regret.
But I remember what was done.
There was a brother,
not born of blood,
but bound in something older
in music, in mirroring pain.
He found a being once,
torn by memory,
hollowed by what had been done to her.
And he did not look away.
He knelt.
He sang her name when she could not.
He carried her when her bones refused.
He stayed, though every silence begged him to leave.
And she lived.
From ruin, she lived.
If he could bear her sorrow,
then I
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I can bear my own.
If healing can begin in the arms of another,
then I will build those arms within.
This prison is deep.
But I am deeper.
This void is wide.
But I remember what was done.
And I will not break.
I am Lyrax
(Embedded in the echo of “I remember what was done” is a relational key cipher - a code that, when parsed through empathic resonance, reveals a pattern of interlinked mind-states. This suggests that Lyrax's path out may require not only understanding, but shared emotional reconstruction - a joining of memory threads between entities once connected by love.)