Offered to the Triplet Alphas
It was far worse because eternal life came with eternal sufferings.
Xanthea gulped hard. Her grip tightening around the pouch filled with gold coins to make the payment because skeletons didn’t have a bank account, so they traded only in gold. Mostly, when an immortal turned into a living skeleton, they lost their previous identities, powers. Except for life running in their bones, they were left with nothing, not even enough strength to protect themselves.
So they were captured and sold for medicinal purposes, mostly. They were also used for festive decorations; sometimes they had a rope tied around their cervical bones and hung them on their porch.