HORIZON BEYOND

What if you never asked to be born? What if existence itself felt like an unbearable weight, a cruel joke played out in the shadows of others’ successes and joys? This is the silent scream of Ethan, a soul adrift in the vast, indifferent ocean of life, haunted by a past of unpunished cruelty and a present devoid of purpose. When even the fragile hope of love crumbles under the weight of a dismissive word from his closest friend, Olivia, he asks the ultimate question: Is it all worth it?

Driven by a morbid fascination, he seeks the final answer on a cold bridge, convinced that oblivion is his only escape. But fate, it seems, has a twisted sense of humor. Just as a glimmer of connection pierces through his darkness, a chaotic twist of events snatches him away, not by his own hand, but by a cruel, undignified accident. Is life truly this unfair? To offer a flicker of light only to plunge you into eternal darkness?

Yet, death is not the end.

He awakens in a stark, white void, confronted by Deus, a deity who deems him ungrateful. Can gratitude be forced upon a soul that believes it has nothing to lose? When defiance sparks, Deus, in an unprecedented move, offers a second chance – a new life, a new world, designed to compel appreciation, making him immortal. But can a forced lesson truly teach the heart? Ethan’s defiant vow to escape again is met with a chilling laugh: Some cages are inescapable.

Now as an immortal,can his heart ever truly heal, or is its destiny to forever seek the answer to the unasked question?