[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.imgur.com/yygVebR.png[/img][/center][hr][hr][i][center]The stars flickered like[/center]

[indent][indent][indent]firelight,[/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center]above[/center]
[indent][indent][indent][right]and[/right][/indent][/indent][/indent]

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[color=2e2c2c][sub]…awaken…Tin…ga…ra…Tin…ga…ra…[/sub][/color][color=FFFDEF]e[/color][color=2e2c2c][sub]…awaken…[/sub][/color]
[color=2e2c2c][sub]…Tin…ga…ra…awaken…[/sub][/color][color=FDF9E0]l[/color][color=2e2c2c][sub]…awaken…Tin…ga…ra…[/sub][/color]
[color=2e2c2c][sub]…awaken…[/sub][/color][color=fffbda]o[/color][color=2e2c2c][sub]…Tin…ga…ra…awaken…Tin…ga…ra…[/sub][/color]
[color=lemonchiffon].w[/color][color=2e2c2c][sub]…Tin…ga…ra…Tin…ga…ra…Tin…ga…ra…awaken…[/sub][/color]

[color=lemonchiffon]Darkness swallowed her. It consumed her with its inescapable gravity, pulling her deeper. She became lost in the void, the stretching, aching [u]nothingness[/u]. It erased the boundaries that made her, one by one. She was boundless. She was nothing. She was a suffocating moment in the quiet of eternity.
[sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]What is the sun, Tingara?[/color][/sub][/sub]
Something lurked in the periphery. It carved itself into existence and stalked a wide arc through the darkness with silent footfalls. For brief, scattered heartbeats, it flashed through reality like a wisp of smoke, like droplets of molten gold. It was as unknowable as death. As formidable as the sun. Its gaze was heavy as a brand. It burned her into the fabric of the world, with charcoal edges and a searing, consuming heat.[/color][/center][indent][indent][indent][center][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c].........It burned………………[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/center][/indent][/indent][/indent][indent][indent][indent][indent][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c].....It burned….[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/indent][/indent][/indent][/indent][indent][right][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c].................It burned…………….[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/right][/indent][center][color=lemonchiffon][b]Fire.[/b][/color][/center][center][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]......It burned…..[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/center][indent][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]..............It burned…[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/indent][right][indent][indent][indent][sub][sub][sub][color=2e2c2c].....It burned………...[/color][/sub][/sub][/sub][/indent][/indent][/indent][/right][color=lemonchiffon][center]She had a body, and it was [u]burning[/u]. Fire licked off her skin like solar flares pulling away from the sun, the dancing glow of her flames serving as the only light through which she could define her world. Her hand was wrong. It was not hers. It hung suspended in the air, nails overgrown, palm lines miss-matched, and always, always veiled in flames. The flickering of the embers was the only clock with which to count the endless seconds, unknowable days, each suffocating moment in the quiet of eternity, stretching out to the last syllable of recorded time. 

A heavy iron cuff encircled the thing that was not her wrist. It was covered in rust or blood, the fire coloring it all the same. Three thick chains hung from the starless void that was the sky, holding the metal cuff in place, pulling against the helpless weight of the thing that was not her body. The chains creaked as they rubbed against each other with every heavy, defeated sway of the wrist. 

The dancing embers, the clattering chains, and the hand that was not hers. These were the only things in the universe that were real, suspended in a nebula of cold, damp air. 
[sub][sub][color=2e2c2c]And so the heavens shined.[/color][/sub][/sub]

The firelight flickered like[/center]
[indent][indent][indent][right]stars,[/right][/indent][/indent][/indent]
[center]below[/center]
[indent][indent][indent]and[/indent][/indent][/indent][/color]

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[color=2e2c2c][sub]…Tin…ga…ra…Tin…ga…ra…Tin…ga…ra…awaken…[/sub][/color]e.[/center][/i]