This world is one only for the rich and powerful, life force is everything. Life force is your life span, you can extend it by sacrificing someone else's . Everyone is given a tattoo on their body, a number, this number tells you how many years you have. It goes down one on your birthday.
But not all the time people's go down, there's a one in one-billion chance that your number would not go down after some point in time. This all happens after birth, no one has ever been born with this. If you were given this gift, then you stop aging at the age you get it, normally once you become a full-fledged adult. Barely any are before that. You also become immortal, the only way you can die, is if someone stabs you in the head or heart.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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