Lilac

Chap 1: Intro

The eyes are the windows to the soul. They introduce us to our days and take us through the journey of life.

But most importantly, they are the key to soulmates.

The eyes hold a layer of transparent color, a specific color, chosen only for your eyes and the eyes of your soulmate.

The layer of hue is not dark enough to disturb the sight. Imagine an extremely thin layer of glass with an almost nonexistent tint. It doesn't affect the way one's brain perceives the world.

If the opportunity of meeting a soulmate happens, this layer disappears, leaving  the eyes to see the world around us with such a beautiful saturation that every memory before then seems opaque.

Life, however, makes finding one's soulmate a little difficult.

Some stories of soulmates from the same place are known and these spread like wild fire, giving people hope at true love.

There are also institutions and organizations to help people around the world find the one that ultimately holds the other half to your soul and completes who you are.

Although life is not all too cruel, it does give people a very rare ability: the ability to feels the other person's heartbeat if they are close by.

Kind of like a "heads up, your soulmate is around so keep a look out." People who have bonded have said this feels like an accelerating event, a pulse that burns the body; wrist, neck and eyes feel the thundering pulse, like a twitch invading the body.

Another good thing is that the eyes don't get damaged, not even over time. Since they are the way to find soulmates, the soul makes sure to keep the eyes from ever changing.

People know of glasses, and they know it helps them see better, but the cases of people using glasses are almost nothing in the world. People have made up stories of those few who do have to use them. Some say they are "soulmateless." There is something extremely wrong with them, not even God will let them into heaven because they lost the other half to their soul. Some say they rejected their soulmate upon seeing them, or they are so messed up they couldn't make a proper bond.

If people would only listen to the truth behind having to wear glasses, but such a taboo topic is not likely to be spoken about.

But again, it's so rare to see someone with glasses that people don't really care to know about the reason of why it happens, not to mention someone with glasses becomes like an outcast treated like they have a contagious desease.

Another rare event is multiple soulmates. The soul usually just gets split into two parts, but there are "puzzle soulmates" as they are called and these are even harder to find.

Finding all the pieces to a puzzle spread out in the world is looked at to be almost impossible. The cases of complete multiple soulmates are only three,  so not too many people embark on a journey to search for puzzle pieces, if they happen to be one.

These three cases of multiple soulmates were officially recorded due to the fact that all pieces were found. The first ever recorded case was in 1755. The second one came in 1878. And the most recent one and probably the most well known happened publicly in 2013.

The famous Korean Pop group Bangtan Soyeondan, known not only for their talent, but for all seven group members being soulmates to one another.

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