And so another ten days flew by, where Luna and Theia were alone in the captain's cabin. Theia lay on her stomach across Luna's lap as Luna's hand rested over her back, glowing with a bluish light.
"Is this much okay? Or keep going?" Luna said.
Theia nodded.
"Alright, if that's what you want," Luna added.
***
After a few hours inside the captain's cabin, Luna and Theia lay on the sofa, Theia slept while tightly hugging her stomach. Luna's eyes grew heavier until they closed tightly shut, and she fell asleep.
She awoke on a floating island of dirt over a black void. Jolting upright, she looked to her right and saw nothing. Immediately turning left, she saw dozens of other floating islands.
She walked up to the edge and looked there. On the nearest platform stood a white-haired girl in a white nightgown, but her face was unrecognizable. Behind her, the other figures were all black, the void spilling out of them like droplets of water flying up into the darkness.
As Luna looked around, a voice appeared in her head.
"No matter what you do, it won't change anything."
"Nothing."
"Everything."
"Everything."
"Everything will be gone. Dead. No matter what you do you will die. Why bother? Why bother? Why?"
"Just lie down, die forever. And you can't even do that?"
Hearing the voice, Luna turned sharply toward the girl, who was staring back with her unrecognizable face.
"Your worthless tries will accumulate to nothing. Nothing is nothing. Nothing will be nothing. So why bother trying? Whether you do, this or not, it won't matter in the end. No one will be affected. Nor will any life be changed. So why are you even trying?"
Luna tried to open her mouth to talk back, to say that she was wrong, but as she opened her mouth, it disappeared. She tried to scream, scratching where her mouth was, but there was nothing. Her pupils dilated into dots as she stared with wide-open eyes. And so the voice continued.
"Whatever you do, this won't change your fate. Nothing will stop what's inevitable. Inevitable is inevitable. Fate is called fate for it is fate. Unchangeable. Therefore fate is fate. See? You can't change fate."
"Theia, was it? She will suffer only because of you. Aria, was it? She will suffer only? Reed, Nyx, Lily, Keal, Kane… was that them? They will suffer because of you. Mytri, was he? He will suffer too… no, he will be dead before he can suffer because of you. See? It's predictable. You cannot change it. You will never change it."
Luna tried to think against it, but she couldn't—her mind was stripped in the void of this ability.
"Your kindness is commendable, but evil. For you know your fate, don't you? You do. You know what comes for you. Since that day, the day you awoke, your soul woke up, you had known that you would die. There is no cure for it. So your actions in the future will be futile. See? I know fate."
"But you don't. So give up and just lie down and die, as people who once loved you grow distant from you. They grow to dislike you. They grow to hate you. Isn't it kind for someone who knows their fate?"
The white-haired girl appeared right before Luna. Luna's legs disappeared, making her fall to the ground, her eyes filling with tears in full agony.
"It is. So why, whether in this life or the past, do you always keep bringing people agony? See? I never brought people agony. I never loved my parents. I never brought attachment to people. I was harsh to keep them away. I never, ever, brought kindness to people around me. I made them hate me, therefore I brought them the biggest happiness they could have."
"Are you stupid? You are. Your life is meaningless. Stop trying to cling to it. Give up on people around you. Stop hurting them—they deserve happiness. You don't, for you bring the greatest anguish to people. You are evil."
The white-haired girl gripped Luna's head. Luna tried to fight her off, but as she tried to break the girl's grip, her arms disappeared. Luna was left terrified, shaking from fear.
"Die," the girl said, holding Luna over the void.
And so she let go of Luna, observing her every second as she disappeared into the darkness.
As luna flies down the Void, every floating island there was merged into one , into one where she stood.
***
Luna jolted on the sofa, falling to the ground, back in the captain's cabin.
Theia groaned, her eyes closed. "What happened?" she asked. Her clothes were stained with blood. The sofa was stained with blood. The floor was stained with blood. Theia slowly sat up as Luna coughed, her eyes flying open in terror. With every cough, blood spattered over the floor.
"Luna?" Theia asked, opening her eyes and rubbing them.
Luna was hunched forward, bent over as she gripped her stomach. She coughed more and more blood as pain overtook her.
"Luna," Theia said, her hands dropping involuntarily.
Luna moved her head toward Theia. Her eyes twitched violently, shaking from side to side as her mouth contorted. Only two words escaped: "It… hurts…"