Body ~ Ummm... Don't ask where this came from. I'm not sure myself. It's... different... Anyway, if you're not to freaked out by the end, tell me what you think! As for who the character is... I have no idea. Draw your own conclusions.

Disclaimer: I'm not going to state the obvious.

Nexus

By: Penybright

This wasn't supposed to happen. Not like this. Why did misfortune choose to grace those who had already suffered its wrath? It wasn't fair, life wasn't fair. Fate wasn't fair. Fate was never fair. The suffering was supposed to end. Happiness was to replace the pain.

It never happened, at least not for him. For a time, he was happy. That happiness faded all to quickly. Happiness always seemed to fade while pain remained ever fresh. Duty. Honor. Responsibility. They were all his. All things he wished to give to another. What was it like to be free? He couldn't remember anymore.

If it wasn't one type of captivity, it was another. Always a captive, always a prisoner. Such was his fate. It was ironic. Irony was a good word to describe his life. It was ironic that he was the prisoner and not the jailer. His prison was made of more than mere stone and metal, though. It was much stronger. He was bound perpetually.

Walls are meant to hold one in, subdue them in a sense. Chains bind, walls enclose. But, these are mere material things. More... lucrative, inexpressible things can bind a person just as surely. One does not need to be shackled in chains to be bound. Perhaps they are bound by loyalty? Maybe a common goal? Or, maybe even love? Such bindings are even more strong than those of stone or metal. Metal and stone merely imprisoned the flesh, not the heart and soul. For one to be bound heart and soul, they were irretrievably lost. Forever they would be bound, until their death, or the death of that which they were bound.

These bonds are like invisible chains, that clamp tightly, tenaciously to their prisoner, never to release. For, who knows if in death one is released from their earthly bonds? Assuredly some are, but others... Some bonds can never be broken. And yet, bonds themselves can cause a break. A strong bond can cause another to grow weaker. A weak link breaks, allowing escape. And so is life, one always bound whether physically or spiritually, but always bound. Irrevocably and inexorably for eternity bound.

Such was his life, ever in bondage, entrapped in a cell with no walls and chains with no links or shackles. For eternity...