(Scars do not appear to be cause of death –shock ... - Bad Request

voice was soft and certain.
"Ravel... this is very important; do you have any idea why I asked you to do
it?"
"Death was a thing you needed to dodge. An easy thing to say, mayhap, but
to DO, it is not! Immortality, even with its flaws, was the best solution this
withered mind could untangle..."
"Yet..." I probed.
"Lead is not easily a-changed to gold, but it is possible, thought the unwise...
un-whys? ...Ravel. If water can be drawn from blood, mortality can be taken
from a mortal, peeled back like a sticky film...."
"So you pulled it off?"
"The gulf between man and unman is great. You traveled the distance. I
provided the means, but you crossed on your own." Ravel slapped her head
and raked her hand through her hair. "Bad Ravel! Mortals are too flawed to
be made to last. Still they break! They must be dragged kicking and
screaming into an unhealthy new mold."
"Unhealthy...? So the ritual was flawed?"
"Shortcuts must be made, and they can break the molded... for it is not
always the mold that breaks, but the substance poured within it. Force
something into a shape it was not meant to be, and it breaks! I thought the
material was of stronger stuff, but you have been broken."
"But I am immortal - surely that was a success?"
"You have survived long, immortaled one, but you have become the prey of
the creature that is life." She cupped her palms, then reversed the motion,
forming a canopy with her hands. "The body is but a hut for the soul. But
now no one dwells in your hut."
"What went wrong with the ritual?"
"Puzzle-fleshed broken, beautiful, beautiful mortal man, the ritual was not...
knot? Knot... not a finished thing." Ravel's brows wrinkled, and her talons
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