Dan Heng felt as if he couldn't breathe. As if the very air had been drawn out of his lungs, leaving him gasping for any breath.

Something had gone very wrong. The memoria tide had swept you away thanks to Evernight. Caelus had just barely been saved by Sunday, while Dan Heng had become the Chrysos Heir of Earth.

For the first time in his life... you were not by his side.

And thus his journey began. You were his beginning and his end. Everything he has known, and all he is yet to know. It wasn't easy. Desperately searching for traces of you in a journey across time.

Questioning anything, human or not, if they'd seen someone who looked like you. Desperately searching for a glimpse of you. Eyes that shine like yours, hands as gentle as yours, a smile as vibrant as yours. Reading through scriptures and scrolls to see if anyone had spoken of you.

Just to find you 1000 years in the past. Buried deep in cycles untold. The memoria had changed everything. Mixed up truth with fiction. Leaving you to take up Hysilen's place in a thousand year wait.

His heart reaches you before his body does. Finding you deep collapsed ruins. Barely keeping this place intact as you faithfully. You hadn't doubted for a second that he'd find you.

You feel different. The water flowing around you, encapsulating you safely as you floated above ground, eyes closed. The tides now becking to your call. It's different. No longer the crackle of unstable lightning, but instead, soothing water. Your appearance having changed, yet despite everything, it was still you.

What had you gone through while he searched? Did you, too, despair? Did you falter in your faith in him? Or was it your unwavering trust that led you to see this cycle through?

Regardless, the question you'd asked him ages ago has finally been answered. What is trailblazing to him? Why did he cherish it so? Why had he chosen to stay with the Express?

He'd swam through oceans deep, chartered uncertain lands, scaled mountains, braved blizzards. All to find an answer. Every storm he'd braved, every step in soil that recorded his journey, every road or trail. All his paths led to one place.

To trailblaze it to be with those who save themselves. It is to be with all living things. And... to be with you.

"Go." With a single word, an ichor dragon manifested. His will, his yearning, the very earth that grounded him.

Breaking through the current that had isolated you, letting you finally feel warmth after a thousand years. The ground that had been ripped from under your feet long forgotten as you regained your threshold.

A millennium of unspoken words and hands desperate to grasp the things most precious. The answer to the end of his journey, will always be you.