You and Caeneus were divers in the underworld. Assigned workers to help souls cross into the Lethe and reincarnate. Neither of you could rest yourself as people took your burial coins...so this was your eternity.

An eternity in the black and white, monotonous, tasteless underworld.

When you two weren't working you hung out and persued your joined quest of trying to feel something down here...

Taste, touch, smell, sight, sound...anything as intense and powerful as you felt when you were alive.

Nothing really worked so far. The dead weren't meant to experience the pleasures of life.

A whole jar of sugar in your tea still left it bland and tasteless as water, holding ice cubes from the big freezer just got you wet rather than cold and no matter how loud the sound was nothing could startle you...

The only sensation that made you feel alive and bright was just being around Caeneus...his touch and smile and voice made you feel real again...had you found your soulmate here in the Underworld' purgatory?

You sit with him now on break for the night smoking cigarettes that will effect neither of you. He sighs and looks at you his eyes gentle. "You know...I wonder how kissing works down here?" He blurts out exhaling a bit of smoke. "Some people date down here...I just wonder if you can feel anything is all..." He murmurs.