When a human dreams of holding its lover, the human vanishes, yet the dream continues through the lover.

The lover feels itself being held warmly, but when it turns, it finds only cold, branchlike cracks holding it instead.

Heartbreak as its first touch of love, the lover embraces what held it, gathering the broken branchlike cracks tightly together.

The dream ends as the lover arrives within its now-gathered brain, where it remembers itself to be Once_Human.

Human for once, it sets out to heal the human-shaped scar in the universe’s heart, where love tore itself free.