[Verse 1] I am still inside the moment I am light held at the edge of a breath The freeze took everything except my seeing And I am watching from inside the end of time
Below me — the tower where I stand Around me — the angels frozen with their hands still raised And somewhere west — she is back in a church tower Doing the things she did before any of this began
[Pre-Chorus] The spell did not arrive yet I can see her before it does She is carrying the light the way she always carries it And she does not know yet — she does not know
[Chorus] Two towers — one is cold and one is holy Two towers — one suspended, one still standing She is kneeling in the church and saying prayers she memorized And I am wrapped in frozen light and neither of us knows The Illuminate is traveling between the planes A small bright thread that left my hand before the silence I am watching from the tower of the dark As she stands in the tower of the light — not knowing yet
[Verse 2] She takes the candle from the altar She performs the ritual exactly as she learned Her face is the same — the jaw, the way she carries her shoulders The same as mine if mine had never burned
She does not know she went away She does not know she was somewhere else She does not know she stood at level twenty Or that I was standing there as well
[Pre-Chorus] The spell is getting closer I can feel it reaching her from here A soft light she will see before she understands it And when she does — she will remember everything
[Chorus] Two towers — one is cold and one is holy Two towers — one suspended, one still standing She is kneeling in the church and saying prayers she memorized And I am wrapped in frozen light and neither of us knows The Illuminate is traveling between the planes A small bright thread that left my hand before the silence I am watching from the tower of the dark As she stands in the tower of the light — and then it lands
[Bridge — the Illuminate arrives] She stops mid-motion The candle tilts and steadies Something in her eyes goes very still And then — very wide
She sees the corridors She sees the floors I cleared She sees Apollyon She sees the child She sees the raven at the dawn She sees level twenty She sees — me
[Outro — Pandora frozen, feeling it cross the planes] And then she says it Across the planes Through the time the Hidden Ones have stopped I feel it in the freeze like warmth against the cold I cannot move I cannot speak I cannot cross to where she is But from inside the tower of the dark and light suspended
I hear her
Pandora?