Lightning Is the Only Way

Mortis found himself in the body of a mortal bird. The mortal bird was simply sitting on a tree, looking at five different eggs on the ground in the middle of a forest.

For a bit, Mortis had to get used to these new sensations. Not being able to control his own perception felt strange and alien. It was like he was only a spectator to someone else's actions. He had no control over anything.

After a while, Mortis saw a grey snake come out of one of the eggs, and Mortis saw the snake how the bird saw it.

Not food.

Possible danger.

These were the only two things the bird thought of the snake.

After a while, the newborn snake simply moved away and crawled into the thicket of the forest.

That's when Mortis' perspective changed to another animal.

Mortis had already known what would wait for him thanks to Gravis' experiences in Samsara, but it felt different than Mortis had expected.

For some reason, Mortis felt more nervous than he had believed.

Time passed, and the snake eventually grew up and became a Spirit Forming beast.

By now, Mortis had gotten used to his new situation. He focused on keeping his emotions isolated with the Law of Emotions so that he wouldn't get invested. Because of that, he felt quite relaxed in all of this.

However, there was one problem.

There was nothing Mortis could do.

He couldn't fight, comprehend Laws, or talk with anyone.

He couldn't even close his eyes.

In essence, he was forced to simply watch.

Some years passed, and Mortis managed to dissociate from what was happening in front of him. Now, whatever happened to the snake didn't concern Mortis. To him, it made no difference if something was happening around him or not. It had nothing to do with him.

Mortis only focused on himself.

However, Mortis couldn't lose himself like Gravis.

stopping

been focused on comprehending something. So, in a sense, 100% of his mind had

time, Mortis couldn't

couldn't just

short time, but then,

he had done, about the

one of these random spurts of thoughts. 'Is this

been distracted by Laws, I

actually never had time to think about

forced to

this is exactly what Gravis had gone through several times by now. There have been no distractions, and

watching the life of someone unfold right before him, and he was also assaulted by all the different emotions of

to the emotions, any other person in Mortis'

this entire thing might

Why?

Mortis was more coldhearted than Gravis anyway, which meant that he generally

If it were perfect, Mortis wouldn't know the Major Law of Emotions, but the True

and they might accumulate into something dangerous. However, that would take a

perfect, it was still good enough to make everything Mortis saw incredibly

which forced him

always needed to focus on himself during Samsara, and now, Mortis was forced to do the same

out of things to think about,

point, Mortis only had

thought about his time

It was absolutely wonderful.

could be

then, Gravis appeared in

more with Gravis, and he wanted to become powerful. Even more, Mortis didn't want

spent way too little

more time with Azure, but he couldn't

that, Mortis also wanted to resolve the issue between his father and Orthar. Both of them had helped him, and

felt more like a responsibility instead of something he actually wanted. It felt like

did Mortis actually

wanted to spend more time with

Why couldn't he?

he could only do that by betraying his friends and family. Of course, they might