Today's OneWord: Follow

If you leave, I will follow you to the little black pond at the edge of the forest, where the leaves turn to gold in the middle of the night, and the sun cannot touch the soil and turn it from gray to brown. If you drink from the pond, I will plunge my whole body into its water, to give myself the immortality that you so desire for yourself. After that, it will be tainted - there will be no God among man but me, and I am not quite man nor God.

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