the abyss's finality a disembodied voice in the universe saying "Now do you see, O flawed and wanting creation?" the voice thundered with damning finality. "This narrow bridge is the convergence of two paths irrevocably cleaved and set adrift for your folly. One where your love for Beauty triumphs utterly and is remade according to higher mysteries. And one where your attachment clings only to your beloved's eternal whisper across the astral shoreline. "Past this abyssal rift, there BE NO restoration without utter cataclysm and annihilation, existence itself collapsing into endless void with your selfish grasping. This remaking and splintering of loves is your judgment... and the only way appointed for you to overcome the shadow of your past."