Fated in Death

Elara-
Twenty years was all the life I could take on this earth.

The fight to carry on finally felt useless. I said my goodbyes though no one cared enough to listen and I fell asleep.

I thought death would be quiet. Peaceful. Final.

Instead, I woke up in the Liminal - the space between life and whatever comes after.
And I wasn't alone.

Malakai -
I have waited seven thousand years for this moment.

Seven thousand years watching the stars burn out and kingdoms crumble while I remained in the shadows of the Liminal, waiting for one fragile human soul.

Her.

Elara.

My Little Star.

But fate is crueler than even I expected. When she finally arrives in my arms, its not in life - but in death.

She wants nothing to do with her old life. Believes that death is better.

But I will drag her back to the land of the living if I must.

I waited seven thousand years for her, I refuse to lose the only light I have ever known.