Soot covered Bones, Twice Reflected

Why are you here, little one?

What holds you tethered to this world?
Is it the comfort of your own flesh? Or the fear of letting go of it?

I was once just like you. A creature stuck inside my own mortality.

But I was meant to be great! I was celebrated! I created marvelous things,
greater than myself! My name was known across the land!

And look at me now. Sitting cycle after cycle in this place.

Forgotten, meaningless.
Just another sacrifice in it's path.

Nothing mattered in the end.