p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555; text-align: left;" data-p-id="d418476f58dfa44966ddf94bca96730c"strongem style="box-sizing: border-box;"A/N: Hello readers, my name is KillerNekomata! I am a novice writer, so please excuse me if I make a few mistakes. This is my first story, so I thought I should start off with a Short Story. This is one of the short stories I had tumbling around in my head, but I think this is a good start. Anywho, enough of my rambling, I'll let you get to the story! P.S: This is also my story on Wattpad, I just transfered over to so I could share with a wider audience! The story I have on Wattpad is under the username KuuKit!/em/strong/p
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h2 id="story-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'source sans pro', 'helvetica neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #555555; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 12px; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 36px; text-align: center; border-bottom: 1px solid #dddddd; padding-bottom: 12px; outline: 0px;"Chapter 1: The Immortal Woman/h2
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="872d41f7ea2fb6d97b65b6f6b26de765"My name is Blake. I was born on October 12th, 1746. Today is October 12th, 2076. I am now estimated to be 330 years old. You may be thinking: ""She must be a wrinkled old mummy!". However, I am still breathing. I am still alive. I still look the same age I looked when I opened my eyes for the first time. No, I was not born looking like a 17 year old. When I say I was "born", I actually mean that I gained consciousness for the first time on October 12th, 1846. I do not know how long I was alive before that, or how long I wandered the earth before then. So, I made that day my "Birthday", the day I, Blake, was introduce to this world for the first time. Years after I was "born", I found the term for what I was. I am immortal. I can never die. I can never leave. I am stuck on this world until it ends, maybe even after that. I am trapped in a state of torture. Yet still, humans wished for my ability. They believed that immortality is something miraculous, but, I knew the truth. Immortality is not something human kind should desire. Humans do not realize their fortune in the ability to cease their existence. They do not know the pain of never being able to rest. Still, they pine for the chance to extend their stories. They yearn for the opportunity to remain even a few years more in this world. So, I hide who and what I am. I stay in the shadows, never standing out. I watch vacantly as human kind grows and expands, struggles and fights, lives and dies. But, this is not a story about my entire existence, this is a story about my one and only love./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="c82aeda856d1f6bcc90f4d969be15cae""There... is the village... a few hours walk... from here..." I nodded in the direction I was pointing, turning to look back at her. She sighed in relief and looked back at me, ready to thank me, but I held out a hand, offering to walk her in a quiet voice. Her eyes widened a little, obviously not expecting me to have offered the company. She took my offered hand and trailed behind me. Soon I felt her gaze on my back. Blowing some of the waist length unkempt black hair, which had grown over one of my eyes, out of my face, I kept my gaze ahead. The trees swayed in the wind, making an almost ominous sound. It seemed like no time had passed as before I knew it we had arrived at the human town. I pointed to the village and let go of her hand, not noticing her disappointed face at the loss of contact. I turned to walk back into the now pitch-black forest, but I was stopped my a small hand pulling my coat. I turned to her in surprise./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="a351e8ee6ae1c3c83a183e4950a62146"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"AN: Thanks for reading my story! Hope you enjoyed! BTW No, it is not over yet, in case you hadn't guessed by the "Chapter 1" thing! I said it'd be short, not a oneshot! Plus, this is kinda cliffhanger-y, which is my in top 5 most hated ways to end a story. Anywho, thanks again for reading and I hope you'll continue to read my story! Leave comment below if you can, constructive criticism is always welcome! Sadly, I happen to be one of those writers who does not update regularly on a schedule. I will try to update as soon as I can, but with the looming threat of eternal boredom and stress that is High School, it most likely wont be for a while! I promise, I'll definitely be back so don't worry! I promise I wont leave for months, just 3 weeks at max. Love you all readers! -KyuuKit/em/p
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