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In an empty palace, an elder awaits his imminent demise as Achilles approaches. He remembers his youth and how an epic poem made him into a great warrior who achieved immortality. A storyteller realizes that the story he wrote allows him to live forever, but he fears that the story will fail to stand the test of time and cause him and his memory of his beloved to fade forever. His story immortalizes him and enables him to experience a journey across aeons, but the elusive presence of Achilles lurks beneath the shadows of his journey and quietly follows him to his journey's ultimate destination. "One word, one breath, writes itself and fills the space between now and eternity. The word is followed by another word, and then my immortality slowly drains out. The ocean brims with fallen stars, and her heart rises out of the tumultuous waters in order to rekindle mine. I have been carrying her words for centuries, and time seems to have passed along with my quiet, uncelebrated journey. The story follows me wherever I go. When the story ends, I will die. The ocean, the Okeano, calls out to me, its relentless roar forms a fist of air that pounds my chest, as if to let my soul roam free in the waves that seem to crash only once but then resume their infinite motions. Now, someone has found me. A hand reaches to pluck me from the ocean's desperate embraces. And then I feel her soft lips and sweet breath in the sea's fleeting farewells. I live in every word, feeling it, becoming whatever is left of her undying heart. Because of her, my heart will never die. Forever and forever, the shadowy chain that keeps me following the sun refuses to break, reminding me that her love is following me in the same way. Her love is the shadow that keeps me grounded to the earth, and her love follows me as I follow the neverending path to our secret eternity. She died so that our love could shine as brightly as the sun across a white, featureless sea that is nothing more than the rapidly dissolving breath of the future becoming the present. How long is forever? I feel her heart within my heartbeat, speaking to me in the same way as the massive heart that beats beneath the millions of stars that shine on the ocean. The universe expands before me, vast and untravelled in its glory. That is our love. Whether I desire it or not, the story continues, and each word succeeds another across the centuries."
