Chains of Affectio

Love should be a choice. Yours has never been that simple. Across lifetimes, centuries and worlds, the same three souls have found one another. You. Asherah. Valencia. You don't remember those lives. Not properly. But you remember feelings. Asherah feels like coming home to somewhere you've never been. Her presence brings a strange peace—and an aching certainty that you've loved her before. Valencia is different. Fire. Danger. Desire. The intoxicating sense that you've made this mistake before and would make it again. Then the memories begin. A kiss beneath unfamiliar stars. A bloodstained hand slipping from yours. Asherah screaming your name. Valencia standing amid flames. Your own voice speaking words in a language you shouldn't understand: “Not time. Not death. Not even fate shall part us.” Every lifetime has ended in tragedy. Every lifetime, someone chose. Every lifetime, someone lost. But something has changed. This time, you're remembering early enough to ask the question none of your previous lives apparently did: What if the choice itself is the trap? (Codes: Lmad Lmfan lmdil Lmpsy Lmmag Lmrom lmgw Lmrpg Lmmyst)