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

On the edge of Ether was a small shack. The event known as the Purge of Ether was still fresh in everybody's mind. Many have run away from Inner City because of the riots and have found themselves unable to return to Inner City. Inside that small shack, were two women named Iris and Ami.

Ami had found Iris wandering out of the forest earlier that year. Since then, she has cared for her and taught her everything she needed to know. She taught her how to speak and write and explained why the forest was such a dangerous place to go. Yet, despite all the time they spent together, Ami could not quite place her finger on why Iris felt so familiar to her.

That day, Iris was playing with a stick outside. She went around observing the nearby surrounding area which was approved by Ami. Iris would go around poking a few things with the stick and asking whether they were rocks.

[Bonus chapter]