If you were going to live forever, what form would you want to take? The eternal night of a vampire? The ability to heal from anything so that old age and death are never likely to catch you? Worlds do not live forever, so would you choose the ability to travel in space, or time?

 Eternity is a very long prospect. The bodies we have were not designed with it in mind. How much would we have to change? What would we give up, along with our frailty, to become immortal? What would it cost in terms of soul and self? It’s hard to know, or to imagine.

Could you bear to face centuries, millennia alone? Could you love those who remained mortal, doomed to watch them age and die? Perhaps the ability to bring others into your immortal state would be a good power to wish for. But what if they do not like it? What if, having all eternity to love, that passion decays into hatred? There are many dangers. The heart of an immortal is more vulnerable than a human’s. So much time in which to acquire bruises, and wounds. So many more years in which to experience betrayal, failure, disappointment.

How could an immortal being dare to love anyone?

How could he bear the solitude of an eternity alone?

With all the time in the world, the need for love becomes more desperate, more urgent than ever.

 Immortal Fire: Available now from amazon

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