The Undoing Room

He told me to find his younger self and kill him before he finds the fountain of youth. Death is his only release.

The old man told me that the fountain does not currently exist. It does however exist in the past. I promised to find it.

Part 3

That was 5 years ago. I stand where the old mans shack would have been had he made it to the fountain of youth. I had never killed anyone before. In the past I found him. Like a coward I hid behind a tree and shot him with my bow as he walked past.

As I stand here I think of the pain I have saved. I think of all the suffering he did, yet did not, go through having to watch his loved ones die. Death to a human is natural. To not die would be a living hell. The body and mind is not made to live forever.

I will always remember his last words to me. "Sometimes life just isn't worth living". I dropped some flowers in the spot where his bed would have been, and moved on.