The planet is dissolving into water, earth, fire, air, and light - each pulling themselves free from the sphere until there is nothing left. The light coalesces into Aether, standing on nothing. The lime is in her hand. A silver-eyed woman with flames for hair - Fire - sidles up besides her, looking over her shoulder.
FIRE
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What've you got there?
Following suit are the others: Water, a tall man; Wind, a young boy of childish stature; and Earth, an average near-ordinary woman.
AETHER
When you all take the same shape as me, it makes me want to change.
FIRE
Ah, don't be like that. What is it?
Aether stares affectionately at the lime, and it transforms into a star in her hand.
AETHER
A good memory.
The five walk into the boundless universe, and the title emerges:
the end.
Apocalypse comes from Greek apokálypsis “uncovering,” a derivative of the verb apokalyptein “to take the cover off.”