part four: the love that kills

[ THE LOVE THAT KILLS ]

Despite our various differences, we are all tied together by one thing.

Death.

In the Kingdom of Alkhemi, everyone and everything has died at least once.

We all die at the end. Despite our differences, we are all made similar by one thing — mortality.

But then, even death allows for dissimilarities. We all die in different ways. Some are killed by a lover, others by sickness/illness, and many are killed in fatal accidents. And luckily for some, they get taken away by natural causes, such as old age. But this is not for those people. This is for those who have been wrongfully and forcefully snatched away from their loved ones before they got the chance to say 'goodbye'.

[ JACQUELINE ]

I remember when I had asked Jacqueline how she had died, and what she got reincarnated as.

Our conversation had gone this way.

“What about you? Are you a Vampire?” I had asked.

“Do I look like a Vampire?” She had joked, running a nervous hand through her hair like she