Safura M Bhapavit had believed that the secret of eternal life had lain in discovering a relationship between religion and science. He had scoured his native India, from tropical south to mountainous north, in search of evidence that would lead him to the human being who most closely represented God, or Buddha, or however one choose to express it. The longing for this eternal life, Safura argued, must have its roots in the tangible and the real, despite centuries of confusion and myth.

He found Jane as he getting out of a taxi at Heathrow Airport, ready for the next stage of his journey. He had long attuned himself to the features and presence that the Infinite Human would possess through many experiences in both art, religion and his unconcscious.

He immediately began laying his plans. Five weeks later he stood in a brightly lit room, with Jane tied to the table.

'Who are you?' he asked.
"I am..." Jane said, before fainting.

I knew it, Safura thought. And began his experiments. Long into the night he worked with different instrument of holy investigation.

Jane died two weeks later due to complications. Safura burned himself alive that very morning.

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hero Jane
villain Safura
goal Eternal Life
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