[Intro – Wind over ruins, distant low hum] The demons stop. Not dead. Still. Watching. ⸻ [Verse 1 – Slow realization] Ash settles where blades just sang, Void-born corpses where they once sprang, Silence louder than the clang — Wrong. They part. Not in fear. In obedience. A path carved through broken stone, Black sun pulsing like a throne, At the end… a shape alone — Waiting. Armor cracked in the same design, Scars aligned with scars of mine, Flame in his chest — but not like mine — Darker. He lifts his head. And I see my own eyes Looking back. ⸻ [Chorus 1 – Uneasy, heavy] Through a thousand shadows walking, Through a thousand voices talking, Every step led to this haunting — Reflection. Not demon, not disguise, Not some trick before my eyes, But the answer to the lies — Of what I could become. ⸻ [Verse 2 – Confusion and tension] He doesn’t move — just stands in still, Black flame steady, cold and filled, Like a version forged by will — Alone. I feel it then — the pull inside, The echo where our flames collide, Not enemy across divide — But parallel. Memories flicker in his stance, Ghost of Darius in his glance, Seris’ silver in the chance — That this is real. My hand tightens on the blade, But hesitation floods the rage, Because the look upon his face — Isn’t hate. It’s exhaustion. ⸻ [Chorus 2 – Dark realization] Through a thousand shadows deeper, Through the silence he’s the keeper, If I strike him — am I reaper — Or savior? The black sun hums above his head, Not rage, not hunger, not pure dread, But something worse instead — Survival. ⸻ [Bridge – Low, tense metal build] (Guitars pulse low, restrained) If you’re me — Speak. If you’re not — Bleed. Why do you look like grief? Why do you look like I already lost? ⸻ [Chorus 3 – Final, ominous] Through a thousand shadows led, I found the path I might have tread, A crown of void, a sky of dead — And me beneath it. Two suns burning out of phase, Two lives forged in different ways, If one must end this mirrored blaze — Which one? ⸻ [Outro – The first words] He finally speaks. “You shouldn’t have come.”

Through A Thousand Shadows