Horror Nights
"I don't work for this world anymore, Julian. This world is closed. The ledger for Earth was finalized an hour ago. Every soul has been accounted for and moved to the next Great Cycle."
"But I'm still here!"
"You aren't," Death says, and for the first time, I see a flicker of pity in his eyes. "In the eyes of the universe, you were settled centuries ago. You are a rounding error. A ghost in the machine. I cannot take what is already recorded as gone."
He begins to fade into the mist.
"Wait!" I shriek, dragging myself toward him. "What happens to me? What do I do?"
His voice comes from everywhere and nowhere, a final, fading whisper.
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