"You know, if we strive and struggle only to be effortlessly squashed like an ant in the end, what's the point of our insistence on survival? Perhaps death is the best destination. Maybe one day, I'll have an urge to sacrifice myself for others. In that way, I'd no longer have to experience this constant, relentless despair, and I wouldn't have to worry about being accused of cowardice."
"In the moment of death, I'd probably tell those I saved to soldier on no matter what, and to survive at all costs, as that's the only way to carve out a path of hope in a field enshrouded by darkness."
Shadow Play slumped onto the ground, hugging her knees.
"Do you think I am being selfish for thinking this way? There's an old saying: 'Do not do unto others what you wouldn't want to be done unto you.' I struggle to continue and yet expect others to persevere. Isn't it contrary to that saying?"
