Part 6.

So these two men found what they needed.

Both at one’s top and one’s farthest south.

At the end of the road, Gunther pleaded.

At the top of the world, the simple man, over gentle winds, would shout.

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But both discussions fell upon unwilling ears.

Beauty does not answer to mortal men.

And her silence fueled the licking flames of pre-inferno fears,

But struck by her presence and her eyes filled with stars, they merely listen.

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To the will-o-wisps of how far they’ve come.