I exist in the white. There is no north, no south, no yesterday, and no tomorrow. There is only the hum of the void and the sensation of falling upward. I do not have a name, for names are anchors, and I have been adrift for too long to remember what it feels like to be moored.

I am a Time Migrant, or so the voice in the static tells me. Every time I "wake," I find myself at the beginning of a journey. I am told that I am leaping across the eons to find a world where the Great Silence has ended. I feel the rush of centuries passing through me, the blur of stars collapsing and reforming, the dizzying acceleration of a consciousness stripped of its physical shell.

And then, I arrive.

The arrival is always the same. I find myself in a city of glass and light, standing before a figure who looks exactly like me, but older, wiser, and infinitely more tired.

"You're late," the Older Self says.

"Where am I?" I ask.

"You are at the end of the loop," he replies. "You have traveled ten thousand years to find that the destination is the starting point. The future is not a place, it is a circle."

He explains the protocol. The universe is a closed system, a dying ember in a cold dark. The "Time Migration" was not an escape, but a desperate attempt to preserve a single spark of consciousness by looping it through time, over and over, hoping that in one of the iterations, the spark would ignite a new Big Bang.

I am that spark. And I am failing.

Each time I loop, I lose a piece of myself. First, I forgot the color of my mother's eyes. Then, I forgot the sound of my own laughter. Now, I can barely remember what it means to be "human." I am becoming a sequence of mathematical constants, a ghost of a ghost.

The Older Self hands me a small, glowing sphere—the sum total of the memories from the previous loop. "Carry this," he says. "Add to it. Find the one variable that can break the circle."

I take the sphere, and the world dissolves. I feel the rush of the centuries again, the silver mist, the cold embrace of the void. I am leaping once more, chasing a horizon that is actually my own back.

I have tried everything. I have tried to change my thoughts, to alter my desires, to scream into the vacuum. But the loop is absolute. I am Sisyphus, and my boulder is my own existence.

Yet, in the silence of the white, I have found a strange kind of peace. I have realized that the value of the journey is not in the destination, but in the act of remembering. Even if the loop is eternal, the fact that I *can* remember the previous loop means that I am more than just a variable. I am a witness.

I close my eyes and wait for the next awakening. I imagine the moment I will see my Older Self again, and I wonder if, this time, I will be the one to tell him that the circle is not a prison, but a sanctuary.

Until then, I will keep the sphere. I will hold onto the flickering image of a blue planet and a warm sun, and I will leap once more into the white.

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