All you have left to call home are a lonely ranch in Beecher's Hope, a thousand bittersweet memories, and your pa's revolver sitting next to you in the sand. Now you're standing on the brink, your purpose fulfilled and your existence feeling empty. An experimental drabble.

That was how Mephiles justified his most heinous action; his orchestration of what was to be the biggest blot in Shadow's life. A oneshot for eternal1990 that is a fresh new spin on the fateful day when everything went wrong on the ARK.