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She stepped off the marble onto a floating cobblestone path that knit itself together just as her foot descended. To her left, a piece of a clock tower drifted by, its gears frozen at 12:04. To her right, a garden bench held a statue of a man holding a bunch of stone roses. He looked peaceful. Elara envied the stone.

That line belongs to , the narrator of the 2011 action-RPG Bastion . He uses it to introduce the player's journey as "The Kid" wakes up on a floating rock after a world-ending event called the Calamity. lh11rar

The path ahead was long, and the sky was still grey, but for the first time since the world broke, Elara started to walk. How to Build a "Proper" Story She stepped off the marble onto a floating

A "proper" ending shouldn't just go back to the start; it should establish a new reality for the hero, for better or worse. He looked peaceful

But as she reached the edge of the district, something moved in the dust. A Scrapper—a twisted mess of metal and bad intentions—pulled itself out of the wreckage. It didn't have eyes, but it knew she had the key.