Black Heart Blooming

He looked fierce now. Had since I'd mentioned occasionally dying. To be...cherished like that. To have someone who cared about my deaths, it...it had been a very long time.

Cursed with immortality, the man known as the Black Shuck by some, as Bennet by others, has resigned himself to a lonely, endless existence. Long days are interspersed with death, dying, and the odd assassin job.

During one of these jobs, he dies and comes back to life in front of very human and very innocent Amory, who is...