"No," Erik answers bluntly. "My death was not beautiful or romantic. I was stabbed in the gut and left like litter on the street with barely a word spoken to me. I remember none of my sister's pleas for my survival, nor the moment my master took my fate into his own hands. Stop chasing a myth. Being dead, especially here, is the inferior experience."
cw: discussion of suicide & suicide ideation, violence/death