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Alaric stood still, surrounded by the vast expanse of nothingness. The space has a beauty so profound it almost hurt to look at. The void around him shimmered with the colors of the galaxy itself, swirling like stardust in infinite motion. Distant stars danced in an ethereal rhythm as their soft glow became the only light in this eternal space. It felt as though time had stopped, as though he was suspended between worlds.
He wandered for what felt like hours, drifting through the cosmic silence while his thoughts were lost in the beauty of it all. But then, the stillness shattered as soft echoes of footsteps reached his ears, faint but distinct, growing louder with each passing second.
Alaric's breath hitched. The figure looked strikingly familiar, almost a mirror of himself, yet ther
