Tyne's eyes widen as jagged debris falls off walls and cities, but he still isn't used to this new body, so Aiden frantically stumbles back down to the ground several times! Petrified, Tyne covers his face because shards of glass and brick wildly fly towards him, but then suddenly disappear! The phenomena, that shocks Aiden-Tyne the most, is that the visceral pain is gone!
Luca blinks incessantly because of disbelief. Tyne weeps uncontrollably because he would live a hundred years paralyzed, deaf, and blind rather than live five seconds with that pain ever again! Aiden still has every memory from his past, but all guilt, fear, shame, and self-loathing are gone!
Luca knows he's been given mercy, because it took the place of the pain... "He who is forgiven much, loves much and shows mercy!" He ridiculously leaps and weeps wildly in front of the gate and doesn't care he is losing his balance! He is a new man, a liberated man with a new body, and a new mind; Tyne knows this because he has never felt peace until this moment!
The gate to the labyrinth creaks and begins to unlock! A sobering secret sweeps over Luca. Clever men, rich men, wise men, wicked men, holy men have all tried to break the seal and unlock the mystery of the labyrinth, when the truth is, it must be revealed and given to them! No one can solve, strive, earn, labor, or will their way in, for it must be opened to them, then willingly received!
Aiden-Tyne marvels but quickly realizes, in order for him to live, one must die, so he chooses to forget the former things and not dwell in the past. Tyne feels a new name is fitting, so he chooses to go by Luca indefinitely! He slowly enters the gate, confidently yet humbly!
TO BE CONTINUED!