*flops down beside and pats shoulder* its ok, we all have those days.... or periods sometimes....
you'll be ok <3 *gives the kelpie a tight hug*

Thank hun

Now, how I’d imagine this is as the perverted twist to a wish for immortality.

This soul has immortality, but is afflicted with the inability to die. Instead, they suffer from a body plagued with desiccation - to suffer from prolonged entropy - while being fully aware of it.

Truly an unsettling fate.

OML that’s some great cosmic horror

There's an ancient Greek myth that deals with this sort of thing. I believe it was about the goddess of the dawn, who fell in love with a mortal and had Zeus grant him eternal life... but not eternal youth and vigor. So he aged normally, but couldn't die, and eventually turned into a grasshopper, of all things.

I was more thinking of “the devil’s lie,” akin to what we see in Genesis.

The serpent, when talking to Adam and Eve about eating the forbidden fruit, tells a lie to them by stating “surely you shall not die.” In the context of the verse, the serpent is misleading both Adam and Eve by inferring that God would not strike them down in that instant. In reality, God punishes Adam and Eve by ousting them from the Garden and denying them the eternal life they had previously.

This is the basis behind all forms of temptation. It is the promise of a misleading statement, which brings about Damnation in the process.

In this case, I’d imagine that our poor soul sought the promise of never seeing death through the misleading words of a malevolent entity. As a result, her wish was “granted,” but at the cost of her own physical form; forced to live an existence of existential misery in a body slowly decaying around her.

That gets me thinking, what about a disease only a godlike being could contract. Something that would never kill it

A disease? I would call it a “blessing” by a being with malevolent intentions. I’d imagine it more as a twist similar to how a wish from a genie is always contorted to some perversion of what the person wants.

Let’s say she desired to not face the consequences of death. So, she sought forces that would grant her this internal desire. However, as malevolent entities always do, they decided to pervert her desire into something more… grotesque.

She will surely not “die,” but she will certainly not live as she thought she would.

Like a malevolent genie wish. Gotta word them wishes properly!

I know the feeling, sorry you're feeling it.

This is really cool though!