Chapter 19. Ajani

Spring of 2002

A hidden fortress under the sands of Egypt, Africa

Khovahsh Burgoos was a nine-thousand-year-old relic, stuck at the age of twenty-five, the age he was when he transitioned to a life of complete misery and darkness. He had regal skin of lacquered chocolate with tea-colored antique eyes. Khovahsh was a notorious body-shifting reincarnate that had a black soul with no sense of self or happiness.

He'd reincarnated himself so frequently that he was aware of who he truly was. As a result, his addiction became the very human hosts he randomly occupied without their knowledge. Sometimes when he was out and about, it eerily seemed like he was in a trance. He didn't care about his own life.

When he was human in his former life, before the shadows, he adored his mother and loved his siblings but didn't love or care about himself.

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KHOVAHSH BURGOOS

Hey, that's me. Enough of the third-person lingo. I never cared about myself. Being bor