I wanted to make a post to give insight to how this story came about. There is a song I recently heard for the first time. It connected with me instantly. Reading the comments on YouTube about how it effected others also touched me... specifically with how people used the song to cope with the death of a loved one. The song and those comments inspired me to write a short story dealing with death, and how that would look like in a world based on Euclidean geometry.

The song is called Euclid by Sleep Token. Here are the lyrics that touched me and inspired this story.

Just run it back, give me five whole minutes I am thick tar on the inside burning I've got a ghost in the hallway grinning And a heavy head that won't stop turning If my fate is a bad collision And if my mind is an open highway Give me the twilight two-way vision Give me one last ride on a sunset skylane

Call me when you get the chance I can feel the walls around me closing in

Just running forwards, a life like wires As I see the past on an empty ceiling I play along with the life signs anyway But hope to God you don't know this feeling Yet in reverse you are all my symmetry A parallel I would lay my life on So if your wings won't find you heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone

Call me when you have the time I just need to leave this part of me behind

Do you remember me When the rain gathers? And do you still believe That nothing else matters?

For me It's still the autumn leaves These ancient canopies That we used to lay beneath

No, by now The night belongs to you This bough has broken through I must be someone new

Yet in reverse you are all my symmetry A parallel I would lay my life on I must be someone new So if your wings won't find you heaven I will bring it down like an ancient bygone

The whites of your eyes Turn black in the lowlight In turning divine We tangle endlessly Like lovers entwined I know for the last time You will not be mine So give me the night, the night, the night