Ennio's Farewell Letter

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To all who witnessed the final performance: By the time you read this letter, the curtains of the Box Theater will already have fallen for the final time. These past few years, I brought the Box Theater all across the land. The audience's applause and the puppets' flawless singing were like a dream. I was tempted to stay lost in that sweet dream forever. But that whole time... the demon's whispers never really left me. Even far from that dark mist, he was still in my heart. Nikki is right. If you keep clinging to the illusions of your past, the wounds it left on you will never heal. When you donned that gown and sang that song, I suddenly saw the entire symphony that had been burnt to ashes so long ago, resurrected through you... Now I understand... The "eternity" I was so obsessed with, died long ago. Those repeating notes, that unchanging chorus... They were never what we truly longed for.…