the journey back (is not worth it)

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2019-06-18
Series Updated:
2025-10-25
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Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.

~Elizabeth Marx, All's Fair in Vanity's War

You don't know how or why, but somehow you've gotten stuck in a cycle of reincarnation. Worse, you keep your memories between each life. More horribly - it's up to chance and which new family member's blood you come into contact with whether or not you get all your memories, or if you get varying levels of partial amnesia.

You don't even remember how you died in your first life. Alone in world after world, you try to pick up the pieces and to not go insane. Most of the time, you can plod along, and even be happy for a while.

But sometimes you don't succeed (those are the worst lives).

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason. Some worlds you only live in once, and other times you land in a different version of a world you've been to before.

However, the human mind wasn't meant to hold on to memories forever. You think you read somewhere that it could hold up to two-hundred years' worth of memories, but that might be wrong.

You hate it.

And yet, you have no way to save yourself.

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