[ WP ] You tell Death that you will never tire of living no matter how long you live . It makes you a bet that you will and thus grants you true immortality . You 've just lived through the second death of the universe and show no sign of stopping . Death is baffled .

`` I DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW YOU HAVE NOT GOTTEN BORED BY NOW.'' 
 
 I sighed. Or I would have, if there were any air to breathe. This was the unpleasant bit, really, that eternal-seeming drowning in an infinite floating near-nothingness. But I'd long-since learned to master meditation, and the eons passed in seeming seconds when I felt like it. 
 
... Hard to maintain when Death was chatting you up though. Seeing as how it relied on nothing new happening. 
 
 `` Simple. Have n't experienced everything yet.'' 
 
 I felt the darkness shudder and shift in irritation. 
 
 `` THAT CAN NOT BE IT. YOU POWER THROUGH EONS LIKE THEY ARE NOTHING. YOU HAVE LOST SO MUCH, AND IT DOES NOT EVEN SEEM TO AFFECT YOU, LET ALONE CHANGE YOU. YOU HAVE BECOME NEARLY AS MUCH A CONSTANT AS I. HOW?'' 
 
 I frowned and `` went back to sleep'' so to speak. 
 
 When I awoke again, there was a light. Distant, and dim. It would fade soon. The universe went through a lot of these false-starts. 
 
 `` YOU STILL HAVE N'T ANSWERED MY QUESTION.'' 
 
 I frowned more deeply. That had been a nice dream I'd been having. I was back on the Silver Tower of Sileria with Carasona. One of the `` Immortals''. I'd had a good long laugh at that, internally, but I suppose had the first Immortal known how long they'd last they would've said the word still suited them just fine. Still, it was wonderful while it lasted. She was beautiful. A real firecracker, too. 
 
 Until that whole civil war thing, anyway, but watching the Silver Tower burn... It held my interest, if nothing else. 
 
 `` YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY MORTAL TO WHICH I HAVE EXTENDED THIS OFFER. BUT YOU PERSIST WHERE THEY FAILED.'' 
 
 I allowed the darkness to slip back into my mind once more. 
 
 When I awoke again, there were even more lights. Intriguing. I shook myself. It took a while, but eventually I managed to scramble my way out of the small asteroid that had loosely formed around me. 
 
 `` YOU LIVE AT MY PLEASURE, MORTAL, I DEMAND AN ANSWER.'' 
 
 At this I outright groaned. 
 
 `` When the universe finally dies, it's all lost, no?'' I asked. 
 
 `` ALL BUT YOU, FOR TWO CYCLES NOW.'' 
 
 `` And you,'' I added. 
 
 `` OF COURSE.'' 
 
 `` Everyone that lived and struggled and died... they're forgotten. The Hero of Sileria. They called me that, you know. In this next cycle nobody will know what that means.'' 
 
 `` YOU ARE NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION.'' 
 
 I scowled and spat. `` I'm answering it in my own damn time, not like either of us are in a hurry.'' 
 
 There was a silence. I let it carry on for a few thousand years, just to get a rise of the Big D. 
 
 `` I'm the only thing left, of Earth. Of Sileria. Of Caracross. Of mankind.'' 
 
 `` YES, THOUGH ONE DAY YOU SHALL REPEAT AGAIN.'' 
 
 `` Still. I'm the only one left of the original.'' 
 
 A pause. 
 
 `` YES.'' 
 
 I looked out as the stars went dark again. A false start. A pity, that. Even worse that there had been so many. No doubt some race had lived just long enough to see the near immediate inevitability of their annihilation at the hands of entropy... Death. I had n't even been there to witness them... 
 
 `` If I do n't remember them... who will?''
