"They told me it was the end, but in those dim-lit corridors, I found beginnings hidden beneath the folds of past whispers."
"In the serpent's embrace, I discovered my own stillness—a quiet mind in a tumultuous sea."
"Voices, like wisps of fog, vanish then reappear—eternal echoes of lives half-lived."
"Beneath the scabbard, a secret concealed: the reflection of who we are, mirrored through ages."