The walls are adorned with massive hand-woven tapestries and ornate oil paintings. The floors are parquet, accented here and there with Persian rugs. They’re over a century old, yet perfectly preserved. Much like the eldest of the family — Garreth Lakewater, age two hundred and twenty-two. The oldest person on Earth.
Only the Gods can grant death with a Form of Deceasement signed in triplicate, but the family of a two-hundred-twenty-two-year-old man refuse to let him die.