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Sophia can't remember much of her Breaking, or the afterlife in general. Sure, it's been a couple thousand years, but she always remembers that exact moment.
The blood curdling cries and the pain through her lower back and stomach. Mitzu’s unnerving smile widening while Sophia is bleeding blue liquid.
She can recognize the Guardians, inked faces with armor protecting them from seemingly nothing.
She remembers a figure screaming her name. She remembers the loud sobbing that came after that.
Sophia’s memory does get fuzzy during The Fall, only remembering the crashing pain and suffering when she hit the ground. That was her first look of immortality. She thought it was the best thing ever (She had been oh so wrong.).
It had taken a while for her to get used to walking again. It had taken a while for her to learn how to breathe again.
She crash-landed into what is now known today as Camden, Maine. Sophia has had to have traveled the world at least 67 times, and every time she goes to a new place it's like a new experience over and over again.
Sophia did get some help from another undead, though they cannot stay for years. Leon stays with her for at most 6 months, then they cannot hold their physical form any longer and must rest for 13 to 18 months.
Leon is a great help to Sophia when building a new identity every 80-100 years. They insist every time she does go by another person, she keeps the name Sophia or something similar.
One time she went by the name Sophine Aukett, some other times Sophia Evans, sometimes Sophie Richards.
This time, she chose to go as Sophie Grace. A tad more modern to help with the current world's questions.
It didn't matter that it had been 4000 years. She still remembered her Breaking to the T, or she thought she did.
Every time that violent moment played in her head, Sophia could not tell who the person who screamed her name and wailed was. It's gotten more distorted over time, but no matter the times she hears it, no name nor face pops up in the memory.
The Breaking always makes her exhausted physically and emotionally. Sophia’s legs always hurt after it, the feeling of the flesh, bone, and muscle reshaping itself pains her every time. The immortal's eyes, however, have numbed and no longer hurt when the feeling of blue blood drips through.
Sophia knows not to stay in one place for too long. When she did not go away from a town after the 80 years were up, she was called a witch and had been burned.
When she went up in flames and suddenly disappeared, the townsfolk had thought they killed her. She had run to a different town away from that specific one after that.
Now she resides in Aspen, Colorado. She knows some of her neighbors (not well) and lives a pretty quiet life.
Sophia lives a quiet, content life, so why does she have the feeling of longing for a person she can't recognize?