A Blessing & a Curse

The body that the spirit inhabits becomes its companion of sorts, a companion that remains linked in a kinship, even after a death, after the body itself has dissolved. For it too has a nature, and an indwelling character of sorts, that has collected experience and memory, and a binding and renewing karma in the service of the two.

And so, when it happened that Murmur had reawakened Pietro from his death, he had given him a chance to have days in the world he would not have had ordinarily.

But this was to be living in another form other than his own. For the body Pietro had worn had now deceased and dissipated.

There is an expression to say that some things can be both a 'blessing and a curse’. The innocent Monk was unaware of the deep and potent magic he had been performing with his resurrections.

With this embodiment came a sorry consequence: that now the door to the Heavens had closed for those he had saved - and Pietro could not find his way back, as he might have done with an ordinary departure into death.

His chance to exit the starry path had come and gone, and its exact configuration was unknown to him, and he subsequently became earth-bound thereafter.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, AZLANDER: NEVER ENDINGS: Second Chances