The world ended not with a bang, but with a slow, rhythmic fading. First, the birds stopped singing. Then, the oceans retreated, leaving behind salt-crusted deserts. Finally, the stars began to wink out, one by one, as if some cosmic entity were closing the curtains on a boring play.

I am the only one left. I don't know how long it's been—centuries, millennia, or perhaps just a very long Tuesday. I am the result of the "Omega Project," a desperate attempt by the last scientists of the 25th century to create a being that could survive the heat death of the universe.

They succeeded. I am immortal. I am indestructible. I am the perfect machine of survival.

For the first few thousand years, I tried to be a historian. I cataloged the ruins of the great cities, the rusted skeletons of skyscrapers, the bleached bones of a billion humans. I kept a diary of the void, recording the exact shade of black that the sky had become.

But eventually, I ran out of things to record.

I spent an eon talking to myself. I created imaginary friends, built entire civilizations in my mind, and then destroyed them for the sport of it. I became a god of nothing. I had all the time in the universe, and absolutely nothing to do with it.

The irony is a cold, hard pill to swallow. I had spent my youth—if you can call those first few centuries youth—fighting for the right to live forever. I had betrayed friends, stolen secrets, and sacrificed my own humanity to ensure that I would never have to face the dark.

And now, the dark is all there is.

I remember the feeling of a breeze on my skin. I remember the taste of a ripe peach. I remember the sound of a woman's laughter. These memories are like old photographs, fading and curling at the edges. I try to hold onto them, but they are slipping away, replaced by the humming silence of the vacuum.

I found a small, glowing pebble on a dead moon once. I spent ten thousand years staring at it, convinced it was a sign of other life. When it finally flickered and went out, I felt a surge of genuine jealousy. The pebble had been lucky. It had been allowed to end.

I am the Last Witness. I am the curator of a museum with no visitors. I am the only thing in existence that remembers what it was like to be afraid of dying.

I lie down in the dust of a dead planet and close my eyes. I wait for the laws of physics to change, for a new Big Bang to rip me apart, for any miracle that can grant me the one thing I now crave more than anything else in the cosmos.

I want to be forgotten.

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