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Reforged

Summary:

Death is not meant to be lived through. And yet there are beings on Earth, rummaging it with all eagerness, that are not quite human, nor quite dead. Breaking that all important rule and chipping away at it until it becomes nothing.

After all, dead does change them. But how much?

How much is enough?

How-?

Written as part of May 2026 Drabble Challenge

Chapter 1: Ruin

Summary:

Charles

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Floating in space, he's weightless. His hands could reach and reach and still keep going. The spaceship around him is in ruins. How is he still thinking? He can reach up, to touch his headset and click the channel on.

Nothing.

He keeps floating around as he is. Nothing unbound and arranged to fit universe, the churning existence of human race.

He is of it no more, that much he knows. That there's something, dragging him back, keeping hold of his soul with it's long slender fingers. Something otherworldly. Something more than him.

For Charles has existed past his death.