Singularity

Prologue
The earth rolls on its axis, twisting and whirling at speeds too fast to be felt. With a single flap of its wings, the eagle has moved thousands of miles. Unfathomable distances pass underneath the rabbit's feet in the interlude between his jumps and his landings.

The cat, though he sits motionless, is moving, too. He is moving in sync with the ground underneath his feet, moving together with ghostly breaths of the earth. He synchronizes with the stars as they both turn and turn.

His fur is black and glossy, an upright shadow against the hill of dead grass he sits on. The cat does not lack in grace. As his head tips back to view the sky, he is the very picture of stillness in motion.

Yet when his eyelids flutter open, the eyes beneath are glassy and lifeless. He has seen too much, and felt too much. There may be no blood on his paws, but his heart is split open. He is nothing, he merely shoves breath into his mouth and chokes it out. He is pointless, he only waits for the end he craves.

The stars are spirits, he knows, and watches them twinkle and dance across the sky. But what are they- do they simply float in the sky? Or are they forever made to burn, just for the pleasure of the cats living below?

He knows this will not be her. Her soul is different, too dark for any flame to ignite.

Instead, he looks at the space between the stars- the darkest sky- and knows she is there. Her soul is the space between the bright ones. She turns and twists in on herself, sucking herself into a vaccum although she tries to keep herself alive. Fighting to breath though she is the one killing herself. She is the churning darkness that folds in on itself until no part will feel the light of day.

He forces himself to keep looking, to let the stars burn into his eyes. He did this to her, made her the self-destroying soul she is. Because he failed to save her from the gifts she was given, and the gifts others tried to take from her.

He destroyed her, because he did not save her from herself.

He closes his eyes and waits for the singularity to take him.