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

Slyk simply stared at Letha as she tried to jump, reaching an astounding height of nowhere near the top.

[How did you get down?] Slyk asked, genuinely curious.

She pointed at the top. "Well, you see, the water up there reaches the top of the wall, so I just jumped off."

The Nine-tailed Fox tried processing that information. From what it could tell, she was very different from itself. Slyk doubted she had the same abilities or physical features as it did. Letha eventually put her hands on her hips, looking around.

She signalled for Slyk to follow her, so it did.

Letha reached one of the nearby cliffs, telling Slyk, "I gotta be thrown up there. Can you throw me?"

Letha crossed her arms again. "Huh, this is a really big problem."

S1-112: Across the Sea (b)