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In truth, a part of me believed that everyone I’d ever loved would come back to me again in another life, in another form. They wouldn’t necessarily know we had met before, and nor would I, but that energy would still thrum between us, that recycled love, that historic bond.

summer deepening always into autumn, winter brightening always into spring, growing new flowers from old roots, and I thought of how it feels to hold you, each season of you, our love blossoming afresh, year after year, century after century, new flowers from old roots, an eternal seed from which life will always bloom —AUTHOR UNKNOWN

as I gazed upon the first bramble, I thought of how the world reinvents itself year after year, century after century,

“What did you…?” Say, what did you say? I begged my mouth to finish the question, to stay awake long enough to hear this new answer, but I was slipping, slipping, slipping, and there, in a grave colder than Mars, next to the soul I’d loved for a hundred lives and lost in every one, we took our final breath beneath the indifferent stars.

“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you,” he whispered, hoarse, tortured. My throat ached. “I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.” Then, very seriously, he added, “I hope we don’t have to eat frozen reindeer in the next life.”

Social media - it eroded democracy and gamified conflict, the way it splintered attention spans and polarised opinions to dangerous extremes, the way it devalued art and fed the leeches of artificial intelligence, the way it jacked adrenaline and manipulated dopamine and narrowed human awe to a singular flickering point.

Tossing my backpack over my shoulder, I gave Gracie a kiss on the forehead. “Love you too, Porridge Face.” “You can’t take the piss out of a leukaemia patient’s complexion!” she yelled after me. “You insensitive motherfucker!”

Such interesting concept!
El Salvador 2004
Wales 2022
Maybe prologue is Viking? Was Arden the groom or the elder turned demon?