“I didn’t mean to…” The pleas fall on deaf ears. There is no one to listen to you beg. There is no one to comfort you. Not anymore.

This is the price of your greed the silence seems to say. It’s suffocating. There is no reply, and yet, it rings in your ears.

Your own arrogance led to your immortality. Led to your lover’s death.

But there he stood. A millennia later. Right in front of you. Elam. Your lover, reincarnated. Not yours. Not anymore. But…