We Reflected You

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Verse 1

Eyru stood in shining height,

Four-faced, holding day and light.

The waters circled his sides in gleam,

Then broke and ran where lands would lean.

Verse 2

We stood where all the rivers start,

Where light runs whole and does not part.

We shone it back the way it came,

And in that gift we felt no shame.

Chorus

The light stood fast. The dark lay wide.

Both stretched beyond the mountain’s side.

We looked too long where shadow spread,

And felt it stir where sight had led.

Verse 3

Some turned their eyes where night was deep,

Not chased, but drawn by what it keeps.

The dark lay still, a waiting floor,

And asked for nothing, offered more.

Verse 4

We learned the light reflects when clean,

But burns when held where it’s unseen.

What does not shine the light back true

Must take it in—and suffer through.

Chorus

The light stood fast. The dark lay wide.

Both stretched beyond the mountain’s side.

We felt the pull. We knew the cost.

Still some stepped where the shine was lost.

Bridge

It burned to turn.

It burned to stay.

The deeper in, the worse the way.

Still forward felt the only path.

Verse 5

Shame held close and silence grew,

Yet still the darker road felt new.

The light behind us did not fail—

We failed to face it as we fell.

Final Chorus

The light stood fast. The dark lay wide.

The peak remained. We stepped aside.

Not forced away, not fully free,

We walked to find what else could be.

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The Story

We Reflected You, Eyru is an original song from the TrueDark Rising world. It belongs to the earliest age -- the time of Lightmere, when the Highborn stood in Eyru's presence and reflected TrueLight back without effort or shame.

The song traces the moment when reflection became insufficient. Some among the Highborn turned their gaze toward the dark -- not seized, but drawn. Each step felt reasonable. Each concession felt small. The song does not describe a war or a seizure. It describes a drift -- the slow realization that returning to the light had become painful, and that the cost of turning back grew with every step taken forward into shadow.

The bridge carries the weight of the thing no one wanted to name: that the deeper road felt like the only path, even as the light behind them never failed. They did not fall because the light abandoned them. They fell because they stopped facing it.

Like all songs of this world, it serves as memory. It is meant to be sung with reverence, and understood fully only in hindsight.