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 The dreams began decades ago—so vivid, so emotionally raw, that waking felt like the interruption. An immortal man named Nico lived entire lifetimes in those nocturnal hours, his world more tangible than daylight reality.

The author believes in stories that breathe, that give readers time to truly inhabit another world. Vanishing Age represents a return to classical storytelling—where character development, philosophical depth, and compelling storytelling all flourish.

A life of sailing taught the author wind and water, the particular solitude of single-handed passages, the way moonlight transforms familiar seas into otherworlds. A native dog companion revealed the ancient bond between human and wolf. Countless nights at anchor in perfect stillness showed how time can stretch into eternity when the heart is full.

Like Nico, the author has discovered the profound peace of Twilight Time, those precious evening moments when the world settles into contemplative stillness. Nico shares the author’s belief that ‘a view is a glimpse of life in motion’, understanding how open horizons and unconfined spaces feed the soul. Both Nico’s appreciation for limitless views and his philosophical approach to existence spring directly from the author’s own understanding of life’s deeper rhythms.

Living near coastlines and ancient landscapes provided inspiration for the story’s settings. The author has walked Roman roads, explored clifftop ruins, and often sailed the river that leads from The Settlement to the Germanic Sea. Then, like Nico, ventured to warmer climes and dived in clear azure waters, watching countless sunrises over waters that haven’t changed since Nico’s time.

Writing Vanishing Age was a journey of discovery. Each chapter revealed new depths to characters who had lived so vividly in dreams for decades. While writing the story, the dream fragments began to reveal that the people were not shaped by imagination alone.

They also carried echoes of the author’s friends. Their laughter still lingers, yet their gestures and spirits are woven into the characters, often blending the essence of several people into a single presence.

In the still spaces between waking and dreaming, memories drift like whispers and the soul breathes life into shadows—turning decades of shared adventures, echoes of real people, and emotional truths into something eternal, more real than reality.

Nico moves through the world with quiet, enigmatic grace. He’s content to blend in, to live normally despite abilities he doesn’t fully understand. Perhaps like many of us, he’s still discovering what he truly is.

Vanishing Age captures one beautiful moment in an eternal existence. Nico’s extraordinary journey has only just begun.