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Dissolution at Sunrise
The rocket cart descends toward the beach at sunrise, but Leif's white wings do not erupt. Instead, his body begins to dissolve—not dying but disaggregating into translucent light. Katita drives while he becomes luminous around her. She asks him the complete twelve-word question for the first time; his voice answers doubled with itself, as if speaking from multiple simultaneous loops. The dissolution does not halt the cart—it accelerates it. They reach the shoreline and the water, and there is no crash, no reset. The screen whites into the sound of the earth rubbing against space. Final frame: Katita's face, eyes open, in silence. `Last edited by karman_line 3 days ago. [citation needed] on whether this ending is canonical.` Discussion remains unresolved.