The Tale of Voyages: Section XII: Claire

Wyrmcross was her home now, whether Anne liked it or not.

In her previous life, she was little more than a burden: bound to hospital beds, machinery, and the guilt of watching her family suffer alongside her. But when death finally came, she did not disappear.

She woke in the body of Claire, a young girl living on the front lines of the Australian Archipelago—a drowned world where monstrous sea creatures roam beyond the docks, and only Vassals, humans capable of manifesting their will into reality itself, can stand against them.

But reincarnators are feared in this world.

Marked as cursed existences, they are hunted, isolated, and hated by society.

Anne should have been no exception.

Yet somehow, no mark ever appeared.

Now trapped in a life that does not belong to her, Anne struggles to navigate Claire’s fractured memories, an adopted family that still loves her, and a guilt that grows heavier with every act of kindness she receives.

This is a debt she must repay.

This time, she refuses to become a burden again.

Strands of red connect all, it can not be cut, yet it shall not be severed.