The Lore of Artificer Rook of Elysium

What could self-cognizant lifeforms foresee

to gain in search of immortality?

In youth, Rook showed a certain skill with tools.

So much, his father filled his day with tasks

to validate his thesis to those fools

that beaks should not a worthy being mask.

Rook passed the course and won his bated breath:

an upright form - at cost of father’s death.

As decades passed, Rook’s fears did not recede

of human judgment and its frightful tolls.

Ensconced away, obsessively he’d read

of afterlives reserved for those with souls.

What possible options a corvid as he

of rescue except immortality?

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