He remembers every lifetime. While she forgets them all.
This time, he will not let her go, even if it that would mean becoming the villain in her every lifetime.
Auren has outlived every generation. In every one, he finds her.
In every one, she forgets him.
And in every single one, she dies, too soon, too cruelly, too unaware of who she truly is.
To her, Auren is no more than a stranger.
To him, she is everything that ever truly mattered.
This time, he won't wait for fate to take her.
This time, he will build a place where she cannot leave him, not by choice, not by death, not even by the gods themselves.
And if it means burning down entire empires, breaking time itself, or staining his hands in blood...
Then so be it.
Let the world call him a monster. Let her call him nothing at all.
He remembers enough love for both of them.
And he'll make sure she never forgets him again.