Elara discovers that the phrase is actually a .
To truly "exist" again as biological humans, the people of Aethelgard must choose to be forgotten by the machine. They must embrace the risk of disappearing forever to have a chance at a real, physical life.
The neon lights of the city flicker and die. The crystal shatters. For the first time in a thousand years, the survivors wake up on a cold, dirt-covered earth, under a sun they never knew existed. They are no longer famous, they are no longer remembered by a machine—they are simply there .