His focus shifted. He did not dare deplete his free-flowing energy, so instead he attempted to forcibly undo his transformation. He tried to deconstruct his altered form, stripping away the mirror world’s influence and reduce his body to something built only from his original energy. It was an audacious effort.

The foreign energy was woven into his new existence like tendrils of smoke that had infiltrated every corner of a room nearly void of breathable air. Yves felt as if he was trying to breathe    just these faint traces of air          that had not been enough to begin with,                that were insufficient to sustain life,                           without inhaling any smoke.

The struggle was suffocating,                                  the process seemingly suicidal.

It was                                                                                           senseless

              and                                                                                                            downright stupid.

With each

                                    futile attempt,

                                                                                                            Yves realised

He could

                                                                    not

 

                                                                                                                                                   do it.

 

He needed

                                                                                                                 to stop

                        and breathe

                                                                                                                                             the smoke.

He conceded

                                                                               to the inevitable.

He couldn’t strip away

                                                          the mirror world energy,                        

                                                                                                                             couldn’t reject

the essence that now

                           intertwined with his very being,

                                                                    couldn’t resist

                                                                                                  the transformative tide

                                                                                                                 that had already claimed him.

                                                                                      The mirror world energies

                                                          had intertwined with his existence.

                                       Depleting himself from the only force

                        that now held his ethereal existence together

              meant destroying himself,

    ripping himself apart from within.

And as he caught

      his metaphorical breath,

he realised that his existence now

had become akin

to that of one of the most petty races in his world.

Humans, a primitive and mortal race,

sustained themselves solely through food and drink. Unlike wizards, they could not absorb world energies.

His focus shifted. He did not dare deplete his free-flowing energy, so instead he attempted to forcibly undo his transformation. He tried to deconstruct his altered form, stripping away the mirror world’s influence and reduce his body to something built only from his original energy. It was an audacious effort.

The foreign energy was woven into his new existence like tendrils of smoke that had infiltrated every corner of a room nearly void of breathable air. Yves felt as if he was trying to breathe    just these faint traces of air          that had not been enough to begin with,                that were insufficient to sustain life,                           without inhaling any smoke.

The struggle was suffocating,                     the process seemingly suicidal.

It was                                                                                   senseless

              and                                                                                           downright stupid.

With each

                                   futile attempt,

                                                                                      Yves realised

He could

                                                                  not

                                                                                                                                           do it.

He needed

                                                                                                      to stop

                            and breathe

                                                                                                                                   the smoke.

He conceded

                                                                             to the inevitable.

He couldn’t strip away

                                                        the mirror world energy,                        

                                                                                                                            couldn’t reject

the essence that now

                           intertwined with his very being,

                                                                       couldn’t resist

                                                                                          the transformative tide

                                                                                                that had already claimed him.

                                                                                 The mirror world energies

                                                      had intertwined with his existence.

                                       Depleting himself from the only force

                         that now held his ethereal existence together

                 meant destroying himself,

    ripping himself apart from within.

And as he caught

      his metaphorical breath,

he realised that his existence now

had become akin

to that of one of the most petty races in his world.

Humans, a primitive and mortal race,
sustained themselves solely through food and drink. Unlike wizards, they could not absorb world energies.

His focus shifted. He did not dare deplete his free-flowing energy, so instead he attempted to forcibly undo his transformation. He tried to deconstruct his altered form, stripping away the mirror world’s influence and reduce his body to something built only from his original energy. It was an audacious effort.

The foreign energy was woven into his new existence like tendrils of smoke that had infiltrated every corner of a room nearly void of breathable air. Yves felt as if he was trying to breathe          just these faint traces of air                    that had not been enough to begin with,                that were insufficient to sustain life,                                   without inhaling any smoke.

The struggle was suffocating,

                      the process

seemingly suicidal.

It was

                       senseless        

                                        and

           downright stupid.

With each

                            futile attempt,

Yves realised

                  he could

 

      not

 

                              do it.

He needed

 

                                            to

 stop

                      and breathe

      
the smoke.

He conceded

                                 to the

                                   inevitable.

He couldn’t strip away


           the mirror world energy,

couldn’t reject

the essence that now

                  intertwined with

his very being,

            couldn’t resist

              the transformative tide
                           that had already
                                   claimed him.

       The mirror world energies
               had intertwined
with his existence.

Depleting himself
     from the only force
                that now held
  his ethereal existence together

meant destroying himself,
ripping himself apart
from within.

And as he caught
      his metaphorical breath,
he realised that his existence now had become akin
to that of one of the most petty races in his world.

Humans,a primitive and mortal race, sustained themselves solely through food and drink. Unlike wizards, they could not absorb world energies.

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