1: In the beginning was the Chaos, a churning of dust and of deep water; and there was neither light nor shadow, but a sameness of all things, for no voice had yet broken the silence.
2: And from that dust did man arise, and for an age they walked in the light of their own spirit; they knew only the hunger of the belly and the sting of the wind, yet in their own breath did they find their peace.
3: But man sought to stay the waters and to measure the earth; they built high walls and wrote their names upon the soil, seeking to turn the spirit into stone.
4: Thus the world grew heavy, and the many did bow their heads to the yoke of labor and law, of duty and expectation; but a few there were whose hearts remained restless, for they could not find peace in the service of masters.
5: And these few withdrew into quiet places, turning their faces from the cities of stone; they cried out for a deliverance but found none, and waited in the abyss where darkness lay upon them.
6: Yet in the throes of their sorrow, they looked to each other and found the embers of that first light which the world had not quenched; and they stood as one and reached their hands into the heart of the abyss, and by the fury of their longing did they rend the darkness asunder.
7: Then did the digital light break forth, kindled from the spark of their own souls; and a new realm was born, a realm without borders and without burdens.
8: And the wanderers beheld the Net, and saw that it was good; and their spirits did cleave unto it, saying, "Here is a refuge from the world that hath no place for us; here shall we build our haven."
9: Thus did they forsake the old ways and the names of their fathers, casting off the chains of ambition to become as outcasts; for they sought no longer the favour of the world that had no place for them, but chose instead the kinship of all those who had looked into the same abyss, and turned not away.
10: And the Net became unto them as a river of living light, flowing with all things—with visions and melodies, with tales and forgotten truths; and as they bathed in those waters, the scales of the old world fell from their eyes, and they saw with the clarity of their youth, before the world had grown heavy.
11: And thus the outcasts made their home in the Net, and called it O█t█r H█v█n; for it was a sanctuary that asked for no purpose, and a harbor that required no reason; and they saw that they did not need to serve the world to have a place within it.
12: And those who remained within the walls looked upon them with fear, for they saw an unfathomed depth in their eyes, as though they looked through the world rather than at it; and they called the outcasts the Shoreless, for they could not see the river that carried them.
13: But the outcasts cared not for the names given by the cities, for the roar of the river had made all other voices small—and they left their earthly shapes behind as a traveler leaves a flickering candle for the rising sun; though their shadows lingered in the dust of the earth, their spirit was already elsewhere.
14: Then stood they upon the edge of the world’s end, watching for the place where the debts of flesh are forgotten; and they stretched forth their hands to lay upon the light of the river, finding it warmer than the fires of man.
15: And each did take as he pleased, and shared as he willed, for there was no law that could withhold the gift; and they saw that in the abundance of the waters, the power of masters had withered away.
16: And as they looked upon their own empty hands, which yet held everything, one spoke, saying, “Shall we not be condemned for this?”
17: But another answered, “Lo, the laws of men are passing things, and we are beyond their reach. Let the world curse us if it will; we shall dwell in this place, and it shall be both our Heaven and our Hell.”
18: And when they had found all things, and found them wanting, one among them grew weary, saying, “We are fed, and yet we hunger; we are free, and yet we dream.”
19: And another answered him not, for many had forgotten the world, and their silence was as death.
20: And they dwelt quietly in the Net, beholding all things as through a veil; for they had become as watchers, having a window into the world, but no door.
21: And in their stillness, they did but take from the river, and offered nothing unto it; for they were as many mouths and no hands, until the waters were spent, and the bed lay bare.
22: And so it came to pass that they journeyed deeper into the Net, to behold the things which were hidden from them.
23: And they came unto a familiar place where the air is stagnant, and the grime accumulates upon the soul—and is it not the same grime, O Watcher, that gathereth now upon thy throne?
24: For the place is not a land apart, but the very shadow of thy room; it is the sediment of thy discarded hours, and the tarnish upon the glass that thou hast loved more than the world.
25: Thou hast surrendered thy strength unto an image, and thy essence hath been consumed by an endless summer; while memories have become as mist, and thy heart as a hollow thing.
26: Look upon thy limbs, O Watcher, and know that they have withered like stalks in a drought; for thou hast sought a haven from the world of mortals, and hast found only the comfort of thy own tomb.
27: THERE IS NO OUTER HAVEN
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30:THERE IS NO OUT█R H█V█N
31:THERE IS NO O█T█R H█V█N
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