[ WP ] '' You think , life has to be harsh . But look at me. ``

They were sat on the edge of the Universe, looking out over all of creation and yet she had never felt smaller. A billion suns flared into existence in the time it took for her to wipe at her eyes. 
 
 `` I'd forgotten what it was like, to be among them,'' she said. 
 
 `` And what did you remember Young One?'' 
 
 `` They live such fleeting lives. Born into pain, so many mouths, so many souls, lost to nothingness.'' 
 
 `` Is that what you saw?'' 
 
 She turned to look at him, saw the stars reflected in his blind eyes and yet she knew he saw more in the blackness of time than she would see in a trillion lifetimes. He smiled. The corner of his mouth twitching upwards as memories played out across his flesh like comets streaking across the heavens. 
 
 `` I see a thousand new lives beginning with every beat of the Universe's heart. I see civilisations breaking free from the bonds of their planets. I see life, and death, and know that all the things we have made are stronger for it.'' 
 
 He held her hand and she watched the memories danced between their fingertips. Only the taste. Only the barest notion of what he felt. But it was enough. She wept once more. 
 
 `` You think, life has to be harsh,'' he said. `` But look at me, and tell me the Universe is not a more beautiful thing for having shared it with them.''
