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

'Once a bad person, always a bad person'

It was a common phrase thrown around in Ether since hundreds of years ago. Philosophers had contemplated human nature, and deduced that a person is inherently bad and there is nothing that can change them.

Soon, monsters were used as examples.

Were monsters inherently evil? Or were they just attacking humans due to the lack of basic understanding and intellect?

That question became heavily discussed after the sightings of elves. If there were intellectual creatures that rested outside the borders of Ether, why have they not yet attempted to conquer Ether?

If there really was another civilisation out there with other monsters, could there possibly be another human civilisation? Could there be more humans beyond the borders of Ether?

But the question remains, can someone who has wronged be redeemed?

But let us discuss what exactly it means to 'wrong'.

S1-106: Beginnings of a Fox (a)