Ace Attorney - So it goes

They were all alone when their journeys started. When they got to the end, wounded and torn, they were together.

Long talks were needed to decide — long silences, even more so. What else was there to do? Not much was in sight, if not the first, natural choice.

So, they walked on.

They all learnt to live anew, bound by a tight weave of connections. Each followed through different paths, until it was evident — with none of the old doubts — that their own would twine with the others over and over again.

Sooner or later, they all admitted it felt better than ever.

What they had forged over time, willing or not, was powerful. The plots of destiny are not ones to be dissolved. With someone always by their side, it took so much more to wear them out — everything went with the flow, without pain, even those parentheses of life which never seemed to end.

Everything cycled in a new sunset, then in a new dawn. They gave each other the strength to rise and meet them all.

They burned brighter each day, healed, brilliant. In their daily battle, in justice and spirit, they left their mark on everything they touched. Even before they knew, their influence had grown — their glances and their words, with every gesture, shaped old ideas into new forms.

Soon, the number of lives they had influenced became too high to count.

It takes people like you to change the world, Phoenix. Mia had said so one night, in the warm light of a campfire. And he had heard and understood, looking at the beloved faces around them — it took people who had been touched by despair, and fought back all the way to the surface.

He always smiled warmly when it was them. It was a smile without shadows, without regrets. They had all been lucky enough to have each other. There had been enough suffering in their lives — it was time to join hands and forces, to make their world a happier place.

Every single one of them was looking forward to it.