"It is evil," the Old Wise One said. "For very long we have walked carefree in the only paradise. It would be better if all here were to die."
The last Shadow child said firmly, "Nothing is worse than that I should die," and something that had wrapped the world was gone. It went in an instant and left the river and the mist, the shaking, dancing marshmen and chanting Lastvoice and themselves all unchanged, but it had been bigger than everything and Sandwalker had never seen it because it had been there always, but now he could not remember what it had been.
- Gene Wolfe, "'A Story,' by John V. Marsch," p.134 in The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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