Death Overseer looks like nothing and everything, sometimes I see Anna’s face, sometimes the three thousand dead who protected me during the Reset, sometimes just absence shaped like a person, and it’s speaking about my family like they’re objects it’s considering whether to return.“Seven fragments preserved during execution,” it says, and its voice sounds like endings. “Your mate, four offspring, sister, niece. I caught them mid-dissolution because their endings felt… premature. Unfinished. Like stories stopped mid-sentence.”“They’re alive?” I ask, hope flaring so painfully I can barely breathe.“They’re not dead,” Death Overseer corrects. “That’s different from alive. They exist as preserved consciousness in transition state, aware but not embodied, present but not participating. Think of it as… waiting room between existence and void.”“Can I see them?”“No,” it replies simply. “Fragment-state isn’t visitation compatible. They’re suspended, not interactive. But they’re aware you’
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