On a sunny day.

When the clouds shimmered.

When the ground glistened hotly with life.

The six Titans gathered on the balcony of the pizza parlor.

Sharing a table.

Beast Boy made a joke.

Cyborg laughed.

Rave shrugged and sipped on some tea.

Robin chuckled and nudged Starfire.

Starfire blushed for some reason, smiling pleasantly.

Beast Boy smiled proudly.

He said something.

He wrapped his arm around a blonde girl and eyed her flirtatiously as he made another silly joke.

A blonde girl……

A blonde girl who smiled bashfully and took the opportunity to lean her head on his shoulder.

Shut her eyes.

And bask….

Years.

Millennia.

Eons.

The cavern gradually wears away from the inside out.

Elements over the hundreds, thousands, millions of years gnaw at the structure.

Miraculously……

The statue remains staring.

Her glazed eyes remain glaring.

Her gangly arms remain reaching.

A mildew-ridden plaque rests patiently at her feet.

Spelling words of a culture that eventually dies out.

A silly thing of warmth once valued by strange walking things.

Flecks of dust on a rock of a world.

That all too soon would turn to dust from a storm or a comet.

And join the spreading thinness and cold of the dying universe.

The little girl sits on the dune of snow.

Hugging her knees.

Covered in frost across her naked body.

She faces the shore of the Bay.

Rocking back and forth.

Continuously crying.

At some point, the snow beside her disappears into black oblivion.

She feels it from the vapors.

She slowly stands up.

She gathers her chains.

She drags them forward.

She limps towards the Bay.

As she walks, the snow and ground disappear around her.

She knows without looking that it's futile glance back.

She steps into the waters of the Bay.

It turns to ice from her touch.

Sniffing, she walks in.

Deeper and deeper.

Until she's completely submerged, the rusted chains trailing after her.

She disappears underneath a sheet of pure frost.

That grows colder and colder and colder beyond possible recognition.

Like an endless sigh.

Without lungs.

She walks through the freezing currents.

Blind and shivering.

Walking on and on.

As if searching for something for the sake of searching for something.

And before she even considers counting it, a bare fraction of eternity passes……

...the six deaths of Terra...