She has lived a thousand lives.
And in every one, I found her.
And in every one, she never saw me.
Not truly.
I've watched her smile under different suns, grow old in stranger lands, and die without ever knowing the weight of what we were. I speak her name into the wind, I trace her footsteps in the dust, I scream in silence when she walks through me like I'm just another shadow.
But I always find her.
Because I can't not.
This time, she's called Katherine.
She doesn't remember me. Doesn't see me. Doesn't know that the dreams she wakes up crying from are echoes of the love we once shared.
And me, I'm Alex the same Alex from ages ago, unchanged, not even a bit older
I see everything.
I remember everything.
She remembers nothing.
Time is running out again. And i needed to be seen, to be touched by her, to prove that this bond was more than "fate's cruel trick."
Before her last breath, before the final shadow swallows her light, I vowed to cross every boundary, even defy the gods themselves to be with her.
No matter the cost.