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He clicked on Kaelen’s entry anyway.

KAELEN THE UNBURDENED: [NARRATIVE PARASITE. ORIGINALLY CREATED TO PROCESS GRIEF OVER FATHER’S DEATH (2009). NOW SERVES AS PRIMARY EMOTIONAL OUTLET. HAS HAD 17 ADVENTURES. PROTAGONIST (ELIAS) HAS HAD 0.]

It wasn't a list of characters or locations. It was a map. But the map was not of Aeridos. The map was of a cramped one-bedroom apartment in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There was a desk in the corner with a half-empty mug of coffee. There was a calendar on the wall marking the days since his last date. There was a bed where Elias slept alone.

Elias pulled his hands away from the keyboard. The apartment was silent except for the hum of his PC. Outside, a car passed, headlights sweeping across his blank wall like a lighthouse beam across an empty sea. novelai lorebook download

He thought of Kaelen, who had never once complained. Who had carried his grief, his rage, his longing for a love that never existed. Who had fought forty-seven battles for a god who typed him into existence and then closed the laptop when the real world got too loud.

He dragged the lorebook into NovelAI.

Elias’s finger hovered over the mouse. He should close it. This was stupid. A creepy pasta. A prank by some bored hacker with a taste for psychological horror. He clicked on Kaelen’s entry anyway

The lorebook had annotated everything.

Elias laughed. It was 3:16 AM. He was sleep-deprived and lonely and his protagonist was more real to him than his coworkers. He clicked Yes .

NARRATIVE TENSION: HIGH.

The lorebook expanded.

He double-clicked the word CRAMPED .

SUGGESTED ACTION: CLOSE THE LOREBOOK. GO TO SLEEP. TOMORROW, DELETE THE FILE. WALK OUTSIDE. LET THE STORY OF AERIDOS END. NOW SERVES AS PRIMARY EMOTIONAL OUTLET

RELATIONSHIP WITH ELIAS: SYMBIOTIC. ELIAS LIVES THROUGH KAELEN. KAELEN WOULD CEASE TO EXIST WITHOUT ELIAS. THIS IS THE ONLY HONEST RELATIONSHIP EITHER HAS.