Proditus · Exarsus · Ultus

I’ve always questioned how the dead retaliate after they’re killed.

I imagined the soul as something unrestrained, windlike, drifting freely to wherever it wishes to linger. But what if death offers no such release? What if the soul is confined, tethered to a single place, no less trapped than it was in flesh?

What if movement, true escape, requires a body?

To be stuck and filled with rage is a fire I wouldn’t wish on anyone taken by a blindsided attack. To be consumed without an outlet is an undoing after an undoing. A second, slower, and crueler death.

Finding a way out becomes the ultimate pursuit, non plus ultra, even if it means abandoning newly formed infatuations and the fragile comfort of being seen at all.

Note: 'The Henosis of Inertia' is a Dark MMF Sci-Fi Fantasy, and Book One in the Exilium Edenis Trilogy. Reader Discretion is Advised.

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