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The Complete Achilleion Trilogy (Achilleion, Myrmidon Rage, and Aeon Tide). "Immortality is a choice. He knows that in order to live forever, one must learn to live in the most mortal of moments. One must absorb every second like raindrops that soak deep beneath the skin. The battlefield is in his heart. His mortality rushes toward his immortality, which feels mortality's blow but also prepares to strike back. Drops of blood and sweat merge as he rushes ahead into the chaos of arms and bloodshed. He is torn between one destiny and another. But dying is necessary. He knows that. Achilles feels this moment, the moment of considering two separate destinies. The moment flashes momentary glimpses of where mortality ends and where immortality begins. The sun seems to move more quickly, and his shadow moves around his feet. Then he is a young child again, feeling the flame as it helps his immortality to win the battle. That battle has been raging inside him for a long time, and now mortality bleeds and is broken. He feels his mortality waning. Immortality begins now, but "now" already begins to hover between "never" and "forever." The flame leaves his heel untouched, and mortality rises again. His immortality faces its timeless opponent once more."