The Immortal Perception

Let me take this burden from you...

Helen Anderson's tale of her years at Highland Academy caring for the troubled youth of the elite and prosperous had a tragic ending, no doubt due to that verbal contract with the witty and devious boy who insisted that not only was he immortal, but he knew the secret of what gave him this mutation. She traded her life and soul for this secret, and just as the boy had predicted, she eventually paid the price with her death.

Yet who is this boy? How did he c...