Loss
A lifetime spent in his embrace, filled with laughs and sighs and the sound of his footsteps when he came home. But what was a single lifetime to one who shall live thousands?
Vivi rested her head on Kasey's chest like she had every night of their marriage. She listened to his strained breathing, dreading the moment when his chest falls and never rises. How could immortality be gifted to someone as unworthy as her, and yet be forbidden to him, the one who deserved it the most?
Her first tears in centuries fell on her last love's unbeating heart.