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

Lily had been dragged along with Aella until they came to a stop near a building. Aella pointed at it and said to her, "Did you know this Middle City has a collection of scrolls from the past? It's pretty interesting to see what spellcasting was like back then."

It did not seem particularly crowded. Perhaps it was more of a tourist attraction so the locals barely visited it. Lily felt someone looking at her and turned. A man slipped around the corner and disappeared from sight. Aella noticed it too and frowned.

"Let's go," She said, leading Lily into the library.

Lily got ahold of a few scrolls and began to read through them. She had no idea what kind of effect any of the spells had nor could she even try them out. She could only read and imagine. She remembered that there were a few keywords in spellcasting that could signal the origin of the spell, but she had long since forgotten it.

At some point, Lily lost sight of Aella.

S2-23: Outer City, Excursion, Anomalies (c)