Thorus looked around. He saw in the distance a crushed and smoking ruins. "I've destroyed the Authority, but I've destroyed too much. Now the people are in chaos."
Aria stood silently awhile, and then moved his arm. "But now you can help me to heal them. You've seen in the microcosm, as I have in the macrocosm that all life is one. Now we can show the people that outer and inner space are not separate. We can show them how they exist together and how there can be no escape in either or from either. It will take a long time. But we will do it. And the doing will be grand." She paused. "The beginning and the end, Thorus. The greatness and the smallness. The light and the darkness. It's all here."
"And all that's in between. That too."
"Yes," she answered quietly. "That too."
They turned to the smoking ruins and arm in arm began walking toward it.
THE END
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