Nothing Is As it Seems [Omega / Death Enabled]

Have you ever considered why you’re here? Not just at this place at this time, but why you’re even alive in this world. It makes you think, doesn’t it? Were you brought here for a reason - or just by chance? It often seems that chance is most likely, but sometimes there really is a reason.

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It was late afternoon, and Reim was awash with sunlight. As he travelled the roads with his companions, Ghost would notice something else shimmer gold. In the corner of his eye, sparkling like a sunbeam, was a figure who seemed somewhat familiar. But if Ghost approached, he would realise that he could not make out the details, their appearance flickering in and out of view. After a few moments, however, some words sounded inside his mind, ‘You cannot run away anymore.’ As he wondered about their meaning, Ghost would start to see images flood into view, memories he had tried not to remember - or hoped to forget. He saw his mother Lilith, peering at him over his cradle; running from her Knights of the Sun as they hounded him from city to city; the Imp grinning at him behind a broken pianoforte. And then another memory came to the forefront, quite unlike those he had seen before:

It was the image of a dog-eared map which his mother and father had once owned, hung upon their wall at home. Indeed, the self-same map which they had used as mercenaries - and in their attempts track down Ghost. As he looked closer, however, Ghost could see something circled in red ink. It did not seem to be another village or town which his parents had planned to raid, but a random island floating in the middle of the ocean. What could they have wanted with this island?