Fight for the Night

What do you see, when you look into the night sky? What do you feel in that vast emptiness? Man has looked, and he has seen nothing. But you have looked for yourself, and in that nothing you've discovered. But the power is not in the discovery. It's in the choice. Man told you what was there, but you did not believe. You did not believe because you did not trust any one's eyes but your own. They told you that there was evil in the darkness. They told you to be afraid. But God does not create evil, and the fear which he inspires is not of the type which they claim is present here. And so you're drawn to this portrait of the night, inexorably so, adamant in your exploration of the unknown. But this world was not made for you -- this land of mystery is not your playground. We gave it up, you know. All those years ago. It was once ours to guard, to watch, but in our neglect it fell to creatures of shadow. Demons, spirits, agents of the darkness. So we did what any responsible doctor would do to an ailing limb. We amputated the night, and sealed it away from this world. What you see now is what that world could be, should it be taken back, but it would take a force far greater than you will ever know to liberate the night. Luckily for us, there is another way.

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