ready to take off. away from the earthly. i don't look back as i limp into the light. my hope lies in the glowing flicker before my eyes. i ascend into infinity. the whistling of my fan drones in the darkness. it lifts me up. breathing silently, i hear nothing. the crackling of the cables seems far away. while the ruins of a new time emerge around me. you still speak of a new age. i vanish into the void.