by Zekaa.
His everyday routine isn't suffering. It's death. And he wishes he could've actually achieved it. Zeka's curse shows him every possible way he's about to die — thousands of them, compressed into less than a millisecond, every time the stakes rise. Not a warning. A rehearsal. And every single time, he survives, whether he wants to or not. Liora shouldn't exist either — a girl whose blessing breaks the rules the world runs on. She finds him. She doesn't ask why death won't take him. Someone else is watching, though. And Zeka's curse just became the missing piece in an experiment centuries in the making — one where surviving was never supposed to be the point. Loyalty kept him alive. Love might be what finally kills him.
