It was done, Sonic had successfully returned from the Shatterverse with the aid of Shadow and Nine and fixed his mistake with the paradox prism, leaving his friends none the wiser, but him with each memory of each event. No place, the forest, New Yoke city, Grim, the whole war with Nine, giving up his energy to save the Shatterverse and then almost dying because of it, only to be carried back to the newly restored Green Hills by Shadow.. He remembered all of it, and so did Shadow, who Sonic hadn't seen since he carried the weakened and frail Sonic back to Green Hills and chaos controlled the Prism away.

It had been about two days since Sonic initially restored things, and he still hadn't told his friends, his real friends, everything that had happened within the different universes. Out of guilt, fear, loneliness, regret, or something else he didn't know. In any case, he'd been pretty hung up over it since it had all happened, but he was good at hiding the slight changes in his demeanor from most of his friends.

He sighs, currently sat at the small sandy area that breaks off into grass that's surrounding a tall palm tree, basking in front of the shimmery blue water of the sea in front of him but not daring to touch it or go near it, leaning back on his hands and thinking deeply to himself, his thoughts playing on loop now that he got the chance to just be alone and think...

He was unaware, however to the looming presence of a certain hedgehog silently observing him from afar.