You can run, but you cannot hide.

[Seth Karlo]

The dictionary, when questioned, brings up the following to the query of 'Immortal'.

1. (adj) Immortal
not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever; having unlimited, or eternal, existance

2. (adj) Immortal
destined to live in all ages of this world; abiding; exempt from oblivion; imperishable; as, immortal fame

Exempt from liability to die. Perhaps not to be taken literally, as in, perhaps not that a single being or single construction is forever doomed to roam the endless skies, but perhaps, in that the name, the fame of that being, the fear of that shadow. Perhaps that can live forever.

Destined and cursed to brush through particles of nebula, soar past burning stars. Always twisted with an image of darkness, that distinct tint of red that brings with it the stench of death. Not a physical appearance, but perhaps again, an eternal mark of shame, forever branded like a tattoo onto the very soul of what it embodies.

So not the physical being. Not the cackle that sent shivers up brave men's spines, but what it represented; what would follow. It was more the fear of what could happen, rather than the act of seeing it done, which convinced the courageous to get up and run.

And yet, perhaps, there were those who stood up, said no. Took up the fight and in clashes of steel, plasma and fire ripped the evil from their homes and cast it back from whence it came. Those average men who performed the extraordinary. If you can cut a god, they will cease to be a god. If you can kill the immortal, then their legacy finally dies.

But when the immortal come back... then... then you have to question whether they truly can be destroyed.

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