All Flowers Bloom

In a cruise ship stateroom, a soul awkens in the afterlife, still dressed in the Roman servant garbs of his previous life. He can’t remember much, but a silent woman stands out in his memory: his first and only love. Unable to cope with an eternity without her, he leaps from the ship and back into the depths of the life stream.⁠
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Five hundred years later, he awakens again in the same stateroom, alone and fueled with new memories of her. In his past lives she was a male insurgent, an elderly wise woman, an unruly servant. For a millennia the pair are tethered together, clashing in love and fear, betraying each other in times of war and famine.⁠
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Before memory drives him mad, he vows to rescue her from the stream — even if it takes a thousand lifetimes more.⁠