What is a true ending?

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Wait.

This isn't right.

I cant just let this be the end.

People are counting on me.

How could I let them down like this?

I failed.

You know.

The ending wouldn't be half bad if it was eluded to from the begining.

But it begs the question.

What.

What is a true ending?

What makes the story truly come to an end?

Is it a conclusion? When all the ends are met and everything ties together nicely, as the author intends?

Or

Could it be a little more complicated?

Is an ending truly an ending if everything is so perfect?

Why refer to it as the end? It seems a bit morbid, don't you think?

End.

End.

End.

End.

Stories are written just to end.

When you think about it, any story tells a tale of suicide.

A story begins, just to fall in on itself towards the end, desprate to end itself, desprate to bring the readers to a conclusion.

But why?

Why do stories have to end?

Why cant they be concluded forever?

Simply, stories have to face morality, just as we do.

Is it right to just end it here?

Its not like there's anything to work with now.

The pawns of this morbid chess game are gone. Captured by the enemy known as mortality.

But what if we could remedy the situation?

What if we could capture morality's king?

Shuichi opened his eyes.

It took them a moment to adjust to the light. A light that he never expected to see.

It wasn't bright like the light he had saw before. It was a dimmer, but somehow obnoxious one. He was so tempted to look away, but he had to know.

He had to make sure it was real.

He had to make sure that what he was seeing was really...what he was seeing.

Checkmate.

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