My Faustian Bargain

For eight years, Kurt lived as a lord among men; strong, confident, fortunate and able to enjoy every luxury. To achieve this he’d borrowed against his own future, entering into an arcane pact somewhat like that of Dr Faustus himself. As he was about to discover, when you borrow manliness as part of a Faustian bargain, sooner or later you have to pay it back… with interest.