Meryl the Mole couldn’t believe it. Was this guy THIS STUPID???

“are you crazy?? this is impossible! it is a proclamed death announcement. what do you even EXPECT to find there???”

“I can guarantee to you I am plainly aware of the risks and dangers of the mission I willing to embark in. But hey, I wouldn’t call myself an honorable adventurer if I couldn’t take the risks!

Anyway, legend holds that far, far away, past the Great Wild Hills, past the Mountains of Desolation, far into the Neverheardof Wilderness, in the furthest part of the world, there is an End.

In the end, there is a Cave.

The Cave of Illusion.”

“i’ve heard of it… but its existence is not comproved. it can be just a myth.”

“So many things are a myth nowadays, my fellow! The path is slowing vanishing before our eyes, so is the world we live in. With no memory, what is history but a legend? Told by the senile, whispered by the wind, written in pages, all of this slowly burning, slowly fading away… Soon we may become myth as well, my mechanical fellow.”

“this is a fact i’m already resigned to, and so should you? what is in the cave, anyway?”

“The Cave of Illusion, as tell the myths, is located in the End of the World, but in all truth it is actually the Edge of it. What lies inside the cave is the actual end.

And, as in everything, the Truth lies at the End.”

“and what is the truth?”

“This, I fear, I do not know. The Truth is kept by an Ancient Being, and only by its fall it shall be revealed.

The Ancient Being, according to the legends, cannot have its true name pronnounced by mortal voices. Anyone who dares to say it loud instantly lost their minds, or suffer from other equally vague and terrible fates, such is the power of it. Instead, it receives the name…”

Suddenly, with a wind that came from nowhere (considering all the windows were closed, and that they were at that moment inside a closed pillow fort), the faint light of the candle was blown out, as Mr. Rabbit whispered the forbidden name:

“The Greatest Fear of All.”

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