Follow-Some people's diets are just good for the soul. For warden Eleazar Sage, it's quite literal, a weekly feast of red wine, brie, and the essence of a guilty felon in death row, right before their execution.
-Who knew that a soul lived in sin could be this filling? The juicy fat of a life lived in malice, the savory adrenaline of having been hunted down, and an extra kick of the rough life inside the penitentiary. For anyone else, it's youth wasted. For Eli, they're the perfect hearty meal.
-Eli's been doing this for the past century, soul after soul, ever since he gave up his own to a mysterious prisoner who offered eternal youth, for the cheap price of the delinquent's freedom, and a slight change in Eli's meal plan.
-He was a beat cop when it happened, and it's been a slow build after that. Decade after decade, he made the most of his endless time. He beefed up, trained in gunslinging and mixed martial arts so he can defend himself. He stacked up books on game theory, the rules of engagement, the art of war, so no one dares to touch him. But more than anything, he got his hands dirty to learn the politics of his line of work. After countless promotions, he's cleaned the institution from the ground up. At least, he thinks so.
-He's remained to his cause, unbothered, undistracted by whoever he meets, until he stumbles into you, a wrongly tried fella who's always done good within the cells, a clean, peculiar soul unfit for consumption. He plans to set you free, off the books, and offers you to live under a new name, all so you can work under his wing, helping him sniff out the rotten ones in the system.
-This encounter reignites a rage, a realization of rotten practices brewing underneath his command. But beyond that, it sparked an interest in you, one of the purest souls he's ever met.
