Adrift in the Sea of Humanity (open)
Kalypso sat at a table in a small cafe not too far from where her brother taught classes. She had sent him a message to meet her here for a cup of coffee and to catch up. He didn't respond so she didn't know if he would show, but she was fine if he didn't show. There were times Kal just liked to sit in the middle of the sea of humanity and feel like she was one of them for awhile.

Her favorite place to collect her thoughts was looking down on the Earth from the edge of space, but it made her feel more removed from humanity than she already was. Here, sitting among the masses, she could pretend she was still one of them even though she would never be again. She felt herself pulling away from the human race further and further each day since the day she had found out that she would literally live forever.

She looked like them, but she wasn't human. She no longer needed to eat, sleep or even breathe. She wouldn't die unless her atoms were scattered over a large enough distance and she wouldn't get sick or succumb to the ravages of time and old age. She would remain like she was forever.

It was a scary thought.

Humans dreamed of living forever, but the more Kal realized she would live forever and the more she thought about it, the more she began to dislike it. The only people she wouldn't have to watch grow old and die were other Eternals and gods. Everyone else she knew would live out their mortal lives and die, returning to the Earth from whence they came.

The more she thought about such things, the more she felt herself pulling away from her mortal cousins. Jack kept her grounded in humanity and helped her keep what remaining humanity she had left, but one day he too would be gone and the split from the human world would be complete.

Kal sipped her coffee. Such maudlin thoughts. She needed to think of something happier. Something other than not being human. She turned her attention to the people outside on the street and watched them.