Things were not as they should have been, of that he was certain. The world was in disarray and there was little around him that made sense. Though, despite the glaring alterations made to the geography and perversions in the climate, Seymour was left wonder, above all other things, how it was that he had come to be. After all, logic seemed all to desperate too remind him that he was, for all intents and purposes, dead. Very dead indeed.
His fingers traced the gnarled bark of a tree that had been devastated in the chaos that brought him here. It was a weak and pathetic thing though it took no great mind to see that it had once been something much grander -- and, so, Seymour saw once again that all that existed in the world was doomed to suffer. All living things would spend all their days writhing in agony, for life was a cruel and unrelenting thing.
He had not long since woken from his slumber and was still familiarising himself with the flow of life coursing through him - it had been some time since he had been Sent, since that last nail had been so firmly hammered into his coffin. He had never expected to see the simple act as living as such an unusual thing but, still, few people expect to die more than once and fewer still expect to keep on living regardless.
Yet to think that his first realisation upon returning was one of distress and hardship said enough to him. The world could twist and it could change, it could every single thing about itself, and still it would be true that pain would continue to be the lord of all men, gripping their throats with its jagged talons. No, he wouldn't falter - his aims were as they always had been.
"Oh, you sad little thing", he sighed, now pressing his entire hand against what was left of the tree, his brows furrowed as he cast his gaze elsewhere, "Once upon a time, you must have stood so proud, so tall, and, now, you're little more than an unsightly husk."