The Weight of Immortality

In a world where death has been conquered, love has been sacrificed. The city of Veyra shines like a pearl, its citizens perfected through the Biological Upgrade-a procedure that grants eternal youth, flawless health, and freedom from pain. Yet this gift comes at an unspoken cost: the loss of love, passion, and grief. In eternity, there is no heartbreak, no longing, no fire-only serenity, carefully curated and endlessly preserved.
Eryon, a young man of Veyra, is offered the Upgrade like everyone else of age. But unlike his family and friends, he hesitates. He watches as those closest to him-his best friend Kael, his beloved Mira, even his own sister-emerge from the clinics flawless but empty, stripped of the very thing that once bound them together: their capacity to love. Haunted by their absence and strengthened by his uncle's death, Eryon refuses the path of eternal serenity.
His grief becomes his rebellion, his shadow a banner against the city's polished perfection. When he discovers the Keepers of Shadows-a hidden community of those who chose mortality over numbness-he learns that pain is not weakness, but proof. Proof that love existed. Proof that life still matters. From secret rituals of memory to open defiance in the plazas of Veyra, Eryon becomes an unlikely voice in a world that has silenced its own heart.
Along the way, he encounters Lin, an Eternal whose forgotten love returns through dreams, and a child whose laugh defies correction. Together, they ignite a movement that spreads like fire through glass, reaching even those who believed themselves untouchable. As Veyra begins to fracture from within, Eryon must face the greatest choice of all: exile, Upgrade, or a return to the city carrying the weight of a truth too dangerous to ignore-that immortality without love is not life, but a prison polished to perfection.
The Weight of Immortality is a lyrical, allegorical novel in the tradition of Paulo Coelho and José Saramago, blending dystopian vision with spiritual parable. It is a meditation on love, grief, and the paradox of eternity, asking: what makes us truly immortal-our bodies, or the love we leave behind?