Soulbound
Figures were emerging from the fog.
At first she thought they were ghosts, but their forms held too much weight, too much presence. They moved like shadows wrapped in tattered remnants of armor, scythes and chains hanging limp at their sides. Some had masks, some didn’t. All of them carried the same mark she once bore — the faint silver scar where the tether met the chest.
“Reapers,” she whispered.
One turned toward her, its face gaunt and pale beneath a cracked helm. “Once,” it said, voice soft as dust. “Not anymore.”
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