In the midnight hour, when familiar stars mute their cries, a quasar's lantern flickers across the void[^1]. It glimmers with a promise, or perhaps a curse, as old as time itself[^2].
Amongst stellar shadows, whispers of the forgotten[^3] dance, ensnaring souls in their spectral embrace, weaving tales of once-glorious realms now cloaked in nebular sorrow.
A solitary figure wanders these astral paths, guided by the quasar’s watchful gaze[^4]. To some, this journey is a spree of salvation; to others, an eternal entrapment.
[^1]: The Crimson Lattice and Its Diaphanous Light, Volume IV, by Orin Del'Prax. \ [^2]: Echoes in Solitude: An Exploration of Celestial Murmurs, by Faelan Drusk. \ [^3]: The Grimoire of Lost Realms, Compendium of the Void Series, by Lysandra Talleth. \ [^4]: Wandering the Astral Maw: Chronicles of the Cosmic Pilgrim, by Tybalt Aerev.
Perhaps in the quasar's glow, we find our own reflections—fractured, fragmented, effaced[^5]. \ Only in the frenzy of its luminescence do we realize our shadows dance alongside us[^6].