"It has always been a desire which has pinned us down when we had least expected it." Nancy read out the lines. "Where our boundaries had always been firmly held upwards, our desires had always been overflowing. Eternal life comes with eternal desires, and eternal desires come with eternal sins, which in turn come with eternal agony. Immortality, sure, is a curse after all."
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Sebastian washed his face with the cold water running down the streams of the small waterfall emerging out of the hills he had been climbing. It had been over 20 years since he had come to the US. He hadn't stayed at Felix Hoover's place for too long. After a year, he left to travel the world. In his words, he was too bored to sit tight.
The servants, filled with loyalty in their blood, had begged him and kneeled in front of him to have him stay or let someone accompany him to the harsh world. But he simply asked to be left alone, which was rather saddening for his servants.