The Seventh Life Of The Soulbound Villainess
Something I don't have a word for.
She reads back over the entry.
Six deaths. Or what feel like deaths. What her body insists are deaths, in the way that only truth insists — with the particular, unmistakable weight of something that happened rather than something imagined.
She has categorized the patterns. She does this because pattern recognition is productive and grief is not. The deaths are spread across contexts that suggest entirely different worlds — different power systems, different architectural styles, different social structures. The snow-landscape death suggests a military empire, based on the dress she sometimes glimpses in the fragments, the elaborate formal setting. The cliff