[it's terrible timing, honestly. to be spared from death just after realizing he's been dead all along-- not that he would have refused the chance, honestly. he still has work to do here that he wishes to see through.

but there will be an end to this, and when it comes-]

...I do not know. My soul's aether rightly belongs to the flow of it throughout our world, and my consciousness to oblivion. If there is any reprieve to be given somehow, via this Realm or otherwise, I am not yet aware of it.

For now, I seem to exist.