Sumdud

Hey, have you heard of a rumour floating around recently?

I heard that there’s this girl walking around, weird, right? She walks and just goes around the place, no one knows who she is, no one knows where she came from. Hell, I don’t think even she knows the answers.

But oddly enough, she never seems to age, does she? Of all the dragons, dwarves, elves everywhere, there’s a simple tale passed down from generation to generation.

Of a girl that does not age.

But...

How did it all start? In this fantasy world, how did this person come to be?

A world where humans isolate themselves within their walls, wary of the monsters that lie outside. A world of magic, a world of fantasy, but nothing seems carefree nor fun.

Dating back to one of the greatest disasters known to humanity, the disaster where many deaths were witnessed, life was made.

Living eternally, forever wandering about the world. Monsters do not attack her, no sickness plagues her, and time becomes irrelevant. Wandering from village to village, eventually, she comes across a group of excited people.

'Hey, take us out to the unknown, we want to see the world!'

This is a tale of finding the meaning of life in a world where nothing seems to go anyone's way.

*(Notice: The first part of the story is a backstory. If you don't really like the theme of the backstory, I understand if you just don't read it.)

Immortal Wanderer

The carriage came to a stop. Patricia paid the driver before getting off with Lied. Patricia looked around before pointing at Lied, "Go do your thing now."

"Which one? To steal or to flirt?" Lied asked.

"Obviously to flirt," Patricia rolled her eyes. "Now go."

"Must I? I don't really feel like doing it," Lied told Patricia. "What are the other options?"

Patricia lifted her pinky finger. "You flirt."

She lifted her ring finger. "You steal."

She lifted her middle finger. "We go by foot, get robbed and possibly killed."

Patricia smiled brightly before lifting her index finger. "I sell you off so that I can go home."

Lied sighed and turned around, just wanting to get away from Patricia. Patricia told him as he walked away, "I'll be waiting at a nearby inn!"

Lie turned a corner and disappeared.

Patricia looked around the Middle City before making her way to Adventurers Hall there.

S1-69: Ghost Town (a)