[EXP1RE Duet 01] • Expire

Numbers.

They haunt me.

I can't look into a person's eyes without seeing the six-digit date of their death.

I’m helpless to change it, no matter how hard I try.

I’ve trained myself to look down. Away. Anywhere but at their eyes.

My camera is my escape. My salvation. Through its lens, I see only beauty and life—not death and despair.

Disconnected from all those around me, I’m content being alone, simply existing.

Until I meet him.

Tavian.

The man beyond the numbers.

How can I stay away, when everything about him draws me in?

But how can I fall in love, knowing exactly when it will expire?