Inner Beginning
"When all you have been gathers into a single silence, only then do you understand that you are not just the man who lived... but also the one who watched."
I awoke without a dream. It was neither night nor day.
A grey light floated around, like a state, not a source. There, in the heart of a silent room, I understood that I was no longer just Vladyr—but the echo of what I had become.
It had been a journey through lives, wars, revelations, and losses.
But none had hurt like this: the encounter with myself.