

The Demigods are heros who are chosen to be warrior-celebrities and then have their tickets ceremoniously punched in a ritual called Transcendence. The eight heroes of Astria Ascending know-three months. If I make it to January, I’ve beaten those odds.

One is the old statistical model where most acute heart failure patients die within one year. I have to balance a couple timelines in my head. If my heart makes it that long, it’ll have to get replaced, and I’ll get a new timer.īecause my heart is irreparably damaged, my longevity is going to be truncated from what it could have been. It has a battery readout of 16.9 years remaining as of my last checkup. My doctors implanted a defibrillator in a pocket just above my left breast for the day the medications aren’t enough and something goes wrong.
ASTRIA ASCENDING JSTER SERIES
I have a series of medications to keep things stable for the rest of my heart for as long as possible. My body compensated as best it could, opening up its own arterial version of I-295, but the Philadelphia of my heart is a dead city.

Hell of a name, right? I never felt it, it just happened, and eventually the damage it left behind caught up to me. Sometime in the last few years, I had a “widowmaker” heart attack. There are two true things that I’m currently trying to balance: I love JRPGs and my heart has an accelerated expiration date.
