Cracking Mirror

'Ah… I am… starting to rethink the value of curiosity…'

Even subjected to the horror of the knowledge of the Void, which could quite literally turn Sunny into a Nightmare Creature, he still felt a strange impulse to open his eyes and try to glean the secrets left in the Estuary by the Demon of Dread. 

It was such a tantalizing mystery, after all. The Void, the ineffable beings that dwelled in it, and how the gods were born from them… only to wage war on the very existence that had given shape to their divinity.

It was a bit like the compulsion to jump that some people felt while standing near the edge of a tall cliff. 

Of course, taking that leap would mean the death of them. 

And opening his eyes would mean the end of Sunny. 

So, he kept them shut and kept walking.