Ascension

"We could've avoided each other but it would've only been a form of deep hunger for one another. We would've both been each other's favorite dish that we both craved but were allergic to. The desire would have still been there, would've made me sick, so overwhelming."

Madeline is back home.

Successful, smart and beautiful, she needs rest. Endless rest. The kind that she wants to not wake up from. Not in the sense that she wants to die but she longs for a certain kind of stillness that only disappearing for a moment can bring.

After more than twenty years, Marco comes back to a place he never returned but once knew so well.
He reconnects with Roy, the last person he knows who knew him from before he left.

Marco and Madeline have never met before. But with Madeline being Roy's only daughter, the encounter of the two strangers was inevitable.

For Madeline, what begins as curiosity becomes fascination. Fascination becomes provocation.

She's used to understanding people, understand their flaws and draw portraits of them that are always so accurate. But the years Marco spent building a peculiar discipline and strong sense of morals cross a line between what she is so used to usually understand and of what she can figure out and get from him.

Marco is a man who isn't afraid of death, not because he is reckless but because he is deeply aware of it. He understands its inevitability and therefore lives with little to no notion of past or future. He applies this philosophy to climbing, he applies it in life. Every second counts. But Madeline makes him linger, wonder, doubt. What if? Any mistake could be fatal.

What happens when two people test the limits of each other's constructed self-concepts?

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Book in progress, One new chapter every Tuesday. This is a first draft, feel free to share your advices and reviews.

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