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

"Did you heal me?" Yogw asked Letha while they were walking down the hallway.

"Hmm..." She thought about it before reaching the end of the hallway.

There was a stone wall in front of them, a dead end. She stared at it before she continued walking forward. Yogw tried to pull her back, but she was just out of reach. He called out to her, "Hey, it's a dead end. What are you doing?"

Letha stepped up to only a metre away from the wall. The entire wall shimmered before scattering into tiny glowing bugs. Yogw stepped forward urgently, but the bugs only went around them, hanging onto the wall to their left and forming the image of a hallway off to the side.

Letha walked forward, swinging her arms. The wall in front of them was gone, leaving a continuation of the hallway. Yogw continued walking, his mind in a mess. He tried to get a few questions out of the way, asking Letha, "How did we end up here?"

S1-79: No Way Out (b)