I failed to pass the sword-bearer’s scrutiny. That heart, filled with an obsessive longing to return home, made the scale tilt heavily— in an instant, the water in the mirror froze into pale arms, dragging my hollow body down into the abyss. Not until the butterfly pierced the thick darkness and came to rest on the tip of my nose did golden light seep through my tightly shut eyelids. In that moment, I gained the ability to breathe underwater.
— Lux’s Diary, Day 13 · Transcendence
a brand-new perspective, reversal, insight, awakening, a meaningful sacrifice, brewing, rest, detachment, finding joy in hardship, acceptance
restraint, trapped, escaping reality, a sacrifice with no return, getting stuck in a dead end, wronging oneself, false expectations, unable to accept the current situation
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