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       Elseworlds Story: Where the Light Doesn't Reach Part II
       By: Zorbak the Ebil Moglin Date: January 1, 2026, 4:22 am
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       RP Story: Where the Light Doesn't Reach Part 2: The Desert that
       Consumes All
       Story Opening Theme: The Only Thing They Fear is You (
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpnW68Q8ltc
       )
       Surprise Attack Theme: Anakin vs Asajj Ventress Theme Remix (
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYounXTpuO0
       )
       The Monster Theme: Mad Devil (
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFfzWX_uso8
       )
       The Desert Theme: Sands of Mystery (
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6uGNZDSsAk
       )
       It had been weeks since Kindron had arrived in this strange
       world, trying to avoid being killed or grabbed by the creatures.
       He was still alone, unable to find anyone who might know how to
       fight the system of this realm. But weeks was just an estimate.
       This world had a strange sense of time that was never
       consistent. Some days would be less than four hours long, while
       some would be up to 40 hours long. Kindron hadn't figured out
       how time works in this world, even now. But then again, it was
       only one of the many things Kindron hadn't figured out. Time
       seemed to move very randomly to Kindron's senses, and he hadn't
       figured out if there was some kind of entity or laws that
       governed time in this realm.
       Kindron had spent the first few days hiding in fear, hoping that
       he wouldn't be taken, or if he was taken, that death would be
       quick.
       But after a week of hiding, and seeing or hearing the people
       being taken or killed, something inside Kindron broke. His fear
       of the unknown ended.
       Kindron's fear was replaced by something else...
       Rage.
       Kindron hated this realm that had dared to turn him into a
       coward.
       Kindron hated this realm that made no logical sense.
       But most of all...
       Kindron hated himself. For his cowardice. For his inability to
       help the people here.
       And that's when Kindron decided: He wasn't going down without a
       fight. This world had broken him, and it was going to pay for
       that.
       If this realm wanted to take him or kill him, they'd have to
       earn it. And Kindron was going to do anything he could to hinder
       this world's operation. Even if it doesn't amount to anything,
       he was going to fight back until he either found a way home or
       died. Even if it was just a minor inconvenience to them, Kindron
       didn't care.
       
       And that's how Kindron made the decision to rebel against this
       realm. Even if he stood alone. And to do that, Kindron had to
       learn about this realm, which he did learn a few things about
       the realm.
       One thing Kindron had figured out had been that the light during
       the day had something to do with how people were being chosen by
       the jellyfish. Kindron hadn't yet figured out how it worked, but
       watching people, he'd noticed that the light had some kind of
       effect beyond just pacification. Kindron had noticed the first
       night that the pacifying effect of the light disappeared at
       night, and had further deduced the next nights there might be a
       reason for that. Kindron had theorized it had something to do
       with the blue light returning at night, which may act as a
       counter to the orange light during the day.
       Kindron had also figured out that he could plant cell phones and
       cameras outside and around town. For some reason, cameras and
       phones worked normally. When Kindron took videos of the daytime,
       he had noticed screens showing what light the cameras captured
       didn't have the same effect that the light had with direct
       contact. He had figured out that while watching something on
       monitors or tvs, or even on cell phones, that the orange light
       lost its pacifying effect. When he watched something on a
       screen, the light was normal with the cameras even capturing the
       absent blue light that couldn't be seen normally during the day.
       To Kindron, this meant that the blue light wasn't gone, just
       covered up by the pacifying orange light.
       Kindron knew the orange light had affected him since coming, and
       he theorized that's why his memory was disappearing randomly.
       He'd forget hours at a time, and just be somewhere else when he
       came to. He knew that the light he had been exposed to on
       arriving had stuck with him. Thankfully, he wasn't losing his
       memory during the night when the attacks happened. And Kindron
       had been theorized that blue light may have been the key to
       fighting the orange light, and the orange light may be the key
       to fighting the blue light at night.
       Another thing Kindron had figured out had been that every day
       seemed to have new people dropped into the world when daytime
       hit. Kindron had tried gathering people to help fight, but to no
       avail because everyone always succumbed to the fear of the
       creatures at night. Every new person eventually gave up fighting
       against the world when they saw how hopeless it was and would
       retreat to find places to hide in hopes of avoiding being taken
       by the jellyfish. But Kindron had been watching for new people,
       not just for people to join him, but for anything that they
       figured out about the realm that could help him fight it.
       And this, combined with Kindron's investigation into how
       pictures seemed to be doorways had also led him to theorize that
       the pictures were the key to both entering other worlds, and to
       escaping this one. While Kindron hadn't managed to find a
       picture connected to his world like the first night, he had
       found other worlds in pictures, and talked with other worlds
       peoples. Some worlds were like fantasy, some were normal worlds,
       and some were even like sci-fi. And Kindron had theorized that
       maybe the picture on the screen in the movie theater (when he
       fell into the void) had been the result of the doorway that had
       connected his world to this weird realm. And if these creatures
       were moving to other worlds, then there had to be a way to use
       that to escape, or even track these creatures. Kindron had tried
       to go back to the house he found that first night, but after
       that first night, someone or something had cleaned out that
       house and the pictures were no longer there.
       But anything Kindron could weaponize, he was trying to find a
       way to weaponize.
       Thankfully, Kindron was coming up with strategies to fight the
       creatures who appeared at night.
       First, Kindron had designed a new outfit for himself that he was
       wearing all the time. It was a black cloak/robe that had a hood.
       Kindron also had a mask and goggles that he wore during the day
       in order to avoid the light being able to touch him. Thankfully,
       KIndron had figured out that hot and cold were just as messed up
       in this world. And Kindron did figure out that clothes don't
       affect body temperature at all (or at least, not that Kindron
       had seen or felt). So he could wear enough clothes to block out
       the light completely, and never feel too hot from wearing too
       many clothes. He had figured out that temperature was only
       affected by heat or cold in the air, or by certain devices that
       could heat or cool.
       Kindron's black cloak was lined specifically to block out
       sunlight. And Kindron definitely used this to his advantage
       during the day to avoid the sunlight's effects.
       And in addition to the new outfit, Kindron had been
       experimenting with weapons. The first thing was that Kindron had
       been working on modifying his ammo and guns.
       Kindron had gotten extended magazines for his rifle, and for his
       shotgun. He even had a drum extended magazine for each. Kindron
       knew he was going to need as much ammo as he could get to shoot
       the creatures given how numerous they were.
       Next, Kindron worked on ammo. He had been experimenting with
       ammo when shooting the creatures at night. For the most
       successful rounds he'd found to work during the nighttime,
       Kindron had started making phosphorus incendiary/armor piercing
       rounds for use against the jellyfish. These rounds had become
       Kindron's best weapon against the creatures besides his energy
       sword. The ammo didn't hurt the jellyfish per se, but it at
       least made them flinch and stun them, a fact he figured out one
       night.
       And yes. During one of the nights, Kindron had found an energy
       sword and some energy weapons left by more scientifically
       advanced humans. And Kindron had realized that the energy
       weapons actually could hurt the jellyfish and the aliens. That
       was probably why the scientifically advanced people had only
       been brought in once. It was perhaps the third or fourth night
       Kindron had been trying to figure out how to fight back. These
       humans with energy weapons had managed to hurt the jellyfish
       that night, and the aliens basically reappeared after the
       jellyfish left and swarmed those humans. It was the only time
       the alien creatures reappeared after the jellyfish left, and it
       was only to murder those humans who had hurt the jellyfish. And
       no scientifically advanced people had shown up since that night.
       Which meant that the creatures didn't like to see the jellyfish
       hurt. Another valuable piece of information to Kindron.
       However, most of the energy weapons had been broken and
       destroyed, and the only one Kindron had gotten to work since
       that night had been an energy sword that glowed red when he
       wielded it. He had also had limited success with a pistol he
       took that fired plasma blasts, but he didn't use it much because
       he hadn't yet figured out how to tell when it needed a new
       plasma core, and the physics of the energy seemed just as broken
       since it didn't always work properly anyway.
       Between Kindron's black robes, and his energy sword, Kindron
       joked how he looked like a sith right out of Star Wars.
       "In a world where all the light can be dangerous, I guess it's
       only right that I joined the dark side."
       That would be how Kindron would joke to himself about his look.
       On top of that, he was growing a beard because he gave up trying
       to figure out the rules of shaving. Physics for that was messed
       up as well. Sometimes he'd shave, and the next day he'd have a
       full beard. Then some days he wouldn't shave and his facial hair
       would shrink. And then there were some days where his facial
       hair just stopped growing regardless of what he did. He even had
       a day where his cut facial hair just jumped back onto his face
       when he was shaving which was a weird experience when he felt
       his facial hair reattach to his face. Kindron just gave up on it
       and stopped trying to shave. He didn't care anymore. He just
       wish he didn't have days where he had to deal with such an itchy
       beard.
       Kindron had a routine now. During the day, he'd watch the city,
       sometimes going out to buy ammo and items he needed. And of
       course, he'd also stock up on food, since the humans in this
       world had to eat just like normal people (it seemed that hunger
       was one of the few laws that was universal no matter what world
       you live in). Kindron would buy anything he needed since he was
       scavenging money off the people who were killed at night. He
       couldn't buy anything at night, because most times after the
       jellyfish were done picking people up, Kindron would lose memory
       of most of the night and wake up in his bed in his home (which
       he had tried to board up the windows so light wouldn't come in
       when he woke up, but the windows end up unboarded every day he
       wakes up there, and he couldn't figure out why he was always
       waking up there.
       Nighttime though... That was when Kindron had started to shine.
       Whether that was a good thing or a bad thing was anyone's guess.
       Kindron had watched the creatures and was fighting back
       actively. He wasn't hiding in fear anymore when night came.
       Now, Kindron used everything he had to set up his attack
       strategy when nighttime came. He'd set up shop on a roof, and
       then shoot the aliens and their dogs from the roof with his
       rifle when night hit. He'd save as many people as he could when
       they tried to go for people, using his extended magazines to be
       firing at enemies longer without having to reload. And thanks to
       his rifle's scope, he was getting better and better at long
       range shooting (partially thanks to this world's messed up
       rules). He had always been a mid range shooter, but now he was
       using the broken physics of this world to his advantage. When he
       looked through his scope, his shots always landed where the
       scope was pointed, no matter how off the scope was. Kindron even
       detached the scope and looked through it at an alien, and then
       fired in the opposite direction and the bullet still killed the
       alien.
       So far, the aliens hadn't gone after him like they had gone
       after the scientifically advanced people who were hurting the
       jellyfish. And even when Kindron cut the tentacles off of
       jellyfish who got too close to him, the aliens never retaliated
       against him, which he found strange given that the creatures
       swarmed the other group of humans for hurting the jellyfish.
       While Kindron counted his blessings that he wasn't being
       swarmed, he always felt something was off when he wasn't
       attacked after hurting the jellyfish creatures.
       But Kindron was ready if they did. His rooftop had cameras all
       over with motion detectors. And so did the building. If the
       aliens entered the building, Kindron would get an alert on his
       cell phone that something was in the building (and that was if
       they didn't trigger the traps that Kindron set to take out
       anything that tried to make its way into the building). Kindron
       owned this building, after the person who owned it previously
       was grabbed by the jellyfish. And Kindron had designed an alert
       if any blue light beyond a certain intensity appeared near him.
       Since the jellyfish always came down in pillars of blue light,
       Kindron had cameras on the roof that were aimed up at the sky
       and were set to alert him if any blue light came down on him.
       And then when the jellyfish came down, Kindron started shooting
       them as well. Kindron had noticed something about the jellyfish.
       When they came down, it was always to grab someone or multiple
       someones nearby where they come down. And if that person somehow
       gets away from them to a certain distance, then the creatures
       give up on capturing that person and went back up into the sky.
       Kindron figured this out by using his armor piercing phosphorus
       rounds. Kindron figured out that the jellyfish hate the burning
       of phosphorus, and the white light given off seemed to
       temporarily stun them. And with the armor piercing aspect of the
       rounds, Kindron was able to make them stop. If he shot the
       tentacles, it would stop them from grabbing someone so they
       could get away. Kindron noticed that, while the tentacles and
       the main bodies didn't take damage, it did at least affect them.
       Kindron had noticed that the tentacles would rub the spots where
       he shot, like someone would carefully massage an injury to
       relieve the pain. Whenever the jellyfish stopped due to the pain
       and the phosphorus ignition of the bullets, it would give people
       the chance to run away. Some still got caught because they hid
       rather than run, but Kindron couldn't help that given how far he
       was from the people when he would shoot the jellyfish. And even
       though he wasn't saving everyone, he was out every night
       shooting the aliens and the jellyfish for no reason other than
       trying to hinder this world from killing or taking humans.
       Things were actually going well for him, and it felt like he was
       actually doing something to save the people trapped in this
       world.
       That is... until recently.
       It seemed like the alien creatures started changing tactics.
       Kindron didn't know if it was because of him or if they were up
       to something else.
       One night, the aliens were accompanied by new creatures to fight
       when they came out at night. Kindron was seeing a number of new
       creatures being brought out, and he couldn't tell if these
       creatures were with the blue aliens or not. These creatures
       weren't blue like the others, and had no bioluminescence, but
       instead were usually black or dark colored. It was strange, but
       Kindron treated them just like the other creatures (by shooting
       them when they appeared), even when they sometimes attacked the
       blue alien creatures
       When the monsters came out, Kindron shot each one that tried to
       make a move towards people whether it was to kill or capture
       people. Kindron didn't care what they were, or what abilities
       they had. He simply killed them whenever they posed a threat. He
       saw a number of creatures, such as a large bat with a bee-like
       stinger, 8 foot tall spiders, and a number of other creatures.
       But Kindron didn't hesitate to try and find a creature's
       weakpoints, usually shooting them in the head.
       But Kindron was then faced one night with a problem one night
       when, while he was on his roof shooting, two figures managed to
       make it through his building up to his roof.
       Strangely, Kindron knew that the figures were coming even before
       his motion detectors went off. A voice seemed to speak in his
       mind, telling him to be prepared to fight these monsters.
       But these weren't monsters. They were humans. Two humans that
       made their way up to Kindron's rooftop and avoided all the traps
       Kindron had set.
       And these humans were armed with energy sabers just like
       Kindron's. One had a blue saber, and one had a green saber.
       Kindron couldn't help but feel like he was in an episode of Star
       Wars.
       Kindron: I don't suppose you guys are here to help me out? He
       says, looking at the two men who ignite their sabers. He
       remembers what the voice said in his mind about him having to
       fight. Though he was hoping to avoid a fight if he could.
       The men say nothing, and just charge Kindron with a blank look
       in their eyes.
       Kindron: Are you guys being hypnotized? Come on! Snap out of it!
       He says as he uses his energy saber to block and avoid the
       strikes of the two men who were attacking him.
       Kindron dodges and blocks the two men's attacks.
       Kindron: If those creatures think I won't kill humans, they're
       wrong. He says to the two men who were jumping around him.
       Kindron uses his martial arts training to stay ahead of both
       men, and uses his energy sword to block the men's energy sword.
       But Kindron had to be careful, because one cut could destroy his
       guns if the sabers managed to hit his weapons.
       The two men try to stay on opposite sides of Kindron, but
       Kindron sees their strategy and tries to parry the two men's
       swords into each other to try and keep them both in view.
       Kindron: This is starting to tick me off. He says quietly as he
       starts to get frustrated with the two men trying to continue to
       attack him. I don't suppose you can at least tell me if those
       aliens are controlling you? He says to them, even though they
       don't respond.
       Kindron sighs.
       Kindron: So be it. He says as he decides to go on the attack,
       making up in his mind that he was going to do what he had to do
       in order to survive this fight. He parries the blue saber into
       the other man's chest, and then, in a swift movement, kicks the
       dead man's green saber up in the air. While he was using his red
       saber to lock the blue saber, Kindron catches the green saber
       and slices the man's head off.
       Once the two men were on the ground dead, Kindron takes the blue
       saber and the green saber, and puts them on his belt next to his
       red saber.
       Kindron: Your lightsabers will make a fine addition to my
       collection. He says, doing a poor imitation of General Grievous
       from Star Wars. Yeah, it was stupid to joke right now, but
       Kindron couldn't help it. Ever since went with the black cloak
       and the red energy saber, he just couldn't help making Star Wars
       references.
       But then something happened... Something Kindron couldn't have
       predicted.
       It started raining. It was still in the middle of the nighttime
       attack, and Kindron hadn't even seen the clouds roll in. But
       somehow, the rain had interrupted the aliens nightly attack.
       And something strange happened. The aliens retreated. But they
       weren't doing so out of frustration. Kindron swore he could see
       fear in the creature's eyes. It was weird, because Kindron
       didn't think any of these creatures felt fear. And it wasn't
       like the rain was doing anything to them (at least that Kindron
       could see.
       What was even weirder was that the jellyfish didn't even start
       coming down. It was the second time that Kindron had seen the
       creatures break off from their usual strategy (not counting the
       new monsters that had appeared). Of course, the first was the
       night when the scientifically advanced humans had been swarmed
       and killed after the jellyfish attack. But this was something
       entirely different.
       Kindron decided it was time to investigate. He holds his red
       energy saber in his hand, and keeps the blue and green saber on
       his belt, ready to take them out if he had to. He also had his
       guns on his back, ready to fight if needed.
       Kindron took out some of the beasts as he walked down the
       street, using his energy sword. Kindron's face wore a determined
       look, ready to fight.
       As he took out the glass in a shop window with his energy sword,
       Kindron goes and cuts through a building. He didn't even know
       why he was doing it, but it was a good way to stay indoors and
       avoid the rain.
       But Kindron then saw something. A new creature he'd never seen
       before. Thankfully, he hadn't been seen yet by the creature. He
       couldn't even describe it. It was like a giant black armadillo
       creature. And Kindron had a bad feeling when he saw it hunting
       down people and killing them. It wasn't even eating them, but it
       would use its claws to push someone down and then the creature
       would either bite them or use his jaws to carefully grab the
       head and snap their neck.
       Kindron wanted to go fight it, but the voice in his head had
       returned, telling Kindron that he would die if he tried to
       fight. Listening to the voice, Kindron tries to avoid being seen
       and tries to get away. Kindron wasn't going to pick a fight he
       couldn't win.
       But the voice guided him not to run, but to play dead. This
       confused Kindron, and Kindron was getting ready to leave because
       he knew playing dead would not be enough.
       However, the voice made it clear that Kindron's only path of
       survival was playing dead and laying in one specific spot, and
       it was the only way he was going to survive. Which Kindron
       understood that the act of playing dead wasn't going to work by
       itself.
       As Kindron heard more screams, Kindron gets down on the ground.
       He was still inside the building, and was in one spot where
       there was no glass from the windows. However, the rain flooding
       in was making it hard, as Kindron could tell the rain was
       actually pouring down enough that the area was flooding. Kindron
       tried not to spit the water of his mouth when the water rose,
       and continued playing dead.
       And it was a good thing too. Because the monster broke in
       through another large pane of glass. And strangely, the glass
       didn't actually land on Kindron, but next to him.
       While Kindron stayed silent and was listening, he could hear the
       creature walking by him. It seemed that it hadn't noticed him
       yet, or didn't care. Kindron almost felt one of its legs brush
       by him as it went by.
       And then two people that were outside saw the creature and
       screamed. They tried to run, and the beast roared and ran after
       them.
       The voice in Kindron's head warned him that this was his moment
       to escape, and told him to run through the broken glass that the
       monster broke open when it came in (which was the opposite way
       of where the monster had run off to.
       Kindron got up and started sprinting immediately. He knew he had
       to get away from this creature if he couldn't kill it yet.
       As he got outside, he saw something that really threw him off
       (And yes, it was common given how much this world confused him).
       He saw the rain around the city block, but saw a city block that
       was pure desert.
       There was no rain in the desert, and instead it was a sand
       storm. Kindron couldn't figure out why it felt like there was a
       divide between the rainy part of the town and the city block
       that had become pure dirt and sand. The desert part even had
       worn down buildings that seemed to have been worn down by the
       sand storm as though the sand were consuming everything in that
       city block.
       The voice in Kindron's head snapped him out of his confusion,
       telling him that he had to run into the desert if he wanted to
       survive and not be caught by the creature.
       Kindron then remembered what he was doing and ran into the
       desert.
       When he did, he could no longer see the rain. All he could see
       was the desert, as though he had just stepped into another
       dimension. Now, everything around him was desert, and the entire
       city was now desert as though the rain and the town had been an
       illusion. And strangely, there was sunlight in this desert. But
       not like the pacifying light. It was like real sunlight, which
       was strange given that the other side of the road should be in
       total nighttime darkness right now (but Kindron could only see
       the desert covering the whole town, and having worn it down).
       Kindron couldn't figure out what was happening, but tries to run
       through the desert as best he could.
       It was strange, since the dirt being blown around in the sand
       storm seemed to be clinging to things almost like it had a case
       of static cling. And it seemed like the dirt was mostly sticking
       to concrete or metal.
       Kindron took a moment to study the scene. He saw what looked
       like armor and weapons all around him, and they were all almost
       completely covered in sand. And it looked like the sand was
       wearing down manmade objects while leaving alone things like the
       moss and plants. It was almost like the sand storm was eating
       everything in sight... And from the armor and weapons laying on
       the ground, it seemed as though people tried to survive in this
       hellscape before and failed.
       Kindron took out his energy saber for some light since it was
       hard to see with all the sand, but couldn't ignite it since sand
       had gotten into the devices mechanical parts. Even his guns were
       fully of sand at this point, and he knew he'd be dead meat if
       anyone attacked him right now.
       Kindron curses to himself, and then decided to take cover,
       putting his energy saber away.
       Kindron tried to run inside a building, but noticed that the
       sand storm was also blowing inside the buildings, as though the
       dirt and sand were phasing through the buildings.
       Kindron silently sighs.
       However, the voice comes back into Kindron's head and tells
       Kindron he has to make it to the end of the desert if he wants
       to avoid being killed. The voice warns Kindron that pretty soon
       the beast will track him down and chase him through the desert
       if he doesn't move.
       So Kindron does as he is told. He starts walking into the wind,
       going in the direction the voice had guided him. He had no idea
       what this voice was in his head, but it seemed that someone or
       something was trying to help him.
       Kindron just jokingly called the voice "The voice of the Force"
       to go with his Star Wars references.
       But something changes, as the voice starts to talk to Kindron's
       mind almost like it was using telepathy. Which was different
       from how the voice was communicating through general thoughts
       being projected into Kindron's mind.
       Voice: It will take a while to get through the desert.
       Unfortunately, there is no water or food in this desert. So you
       will have to just power through it before you die of exhaustion.
       It explains.
       Kindron sighs. Of course... It couldn't be easy.
       Voice: Hey. This is actually standard for this realm. You're
       actually doing way better than I expected. It says to him, as
       though responding.
       Kindron: Hold on... Can you hear my thoughts? He asks, not sure
       if the voice was responding to him as he was walking through the
       desert.
       Voice: I can't read your thoughts, I'm just responding how I
       must to ensure the outcome I seek to you escaping.
       Kindron: Yeah sure... That's not confusing or vague at all. He
       thinks sarcastically. But then a thought occurs to Kindron. So,
       why me? Why are you helping me?
       Voice: You haven't noticed, have you? You're the one who's
       destabilizing the realm. And I want you to keep being able to do
       it. The voice explains.
       Kindron: How? How am I destabilizing it? This realm was never
       stable, so how can one person throw everything off? He asks
       mentally.
       Voice: You have not yet fully understood how this realm
       operates. You think this realm is unnatural, and follows no
       natural laws, don't you?
       Kindron: Um... Yeah. That's kind of how its been since I got
       here.
       Voice: This realm has laws just like yours. But the laws are
       different. This realm works differently than others like yours.
       You are like a chemist, trying to understand chemical reactions
       before you've studied the peroidic table. You don't understand
       the fundamentals of this realm, so to you, it looks like
       everything happens randomly.
       Kindron: Then explain the fundimentals. I've been trying to
       figure out the rules of this realm, but everything is too
       random.
       Voice: Nothing is random. Except for you.
       Kindron stops for a moment.
       Kindron: Why? Why am I random?
       Voice: You are the variable they cannot control. They do not
       know how to respond to you. And the realm has begun to
       destabilize because of it. You wanted to fight this realm, and
       you are doing a far better job than you realize.
       Kindron: I'm still confused. He says to himself as he starts
       walking again, still fighting the wind and the sand storm.
       Voice: You have seen how people react to this realm, yes? This
       realm breaks people who enter it. Ensures they will not fight
       back. This realm feeds on the fight or flight response, and
       forces the flight response to make sure people don't start
       building group rebellions against this world. People are broken
       when they come to this realm, much like you were on the first
       night you were here.
       Kindron: Okay. So I had a mental breakdown... Everyone does in
       this realm, right?
       Voice: Yes... But your response to that breakdown and how you
       chose to fight this realm have confused the system. You are an
       anamoly... The one who will not do what the system commands,
       even though everyone else does.
       Kindron: The pacifying light? Is that the system?
       Voice: Close, but no. It would take too long to explain.
       Normally, this realm breaks people down, so that they lose the
       will to fight. And the system makes sure that the people only do
       what it is they want. Even at night when it seems panic ensues
       as "they" invade, the system is still operating and controlling
       the outcomes. This realm never fails to predict responses and
       break down people's desires to fight. But you... You cannot be
       controlled. Your rebellion against the system has created
       instability in this realm that grows by the day, and those black
       creatures you have seen are part of the instability.
       Kindron: So... Not only am I a sith. I'm now Neo from the Matrix
       as well? He thinks jokingly.
       Voice: I don't know what that is...
       Kindron: Oh god. Do you not have movies? I thought Star Wars and
       the Matrix were a thing in all universes. He thinks jokingly.
       The voice just sighs.
       Kindron realized it was going to be a long walk through this
       desert if he couldn't talk about movies...
       But Kindron needed to find the source of this voice, and figure
       out the rules of this world. And how to break it down. Kindron
       was ready to continue the fight against this realm, and wanted
       more than anything to break this realm the way it broke him.
       But first Kindron would have to make it across this desert...
       This desert that consumes all...
       End.
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