The Sentinels: Death

What is Death?

Is it the end of mortal life or a more sinister punishment for those left behind?

At birth, you are infected by the creeping darkness that eats away at the living, the once burning flame of life dims to embers, until all that remains is ash.

No religion, no faith, no belief can protect you. Death is a mortal consequence, one that binds or tears apart. Its far reaching grasp is unrelenting, entombing it prey in a capsule of time, one which only it knows the deadline.

But what if Death was not a consequence, rather a transition to a place where the mortal soul is the price of admission. A place where the sins that stain a once pure soul a washed away; you begin again, a new soul in a new place.

Death could be the beginning.

All I have to do is Die.

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Pain was not new to her, it was a cumbersome reminder she did not belong in the world she was born in. They locked her away, hid her deep in the dredges of society, hoping to keep her "evil" gift wrapped away. Hopeless and bereft, she waited for the impending demise of her mortal body until the Dark One came and took her pain away.

He was born for war, born for pain and darkness. He was marked by the Light as a child and remained in their servitude, an empty husk of violent power until the Dark One came for him.

Together they are the beginning.

All they have to do is Die.