The Reaper's Pet
At exactly midnight in her clock, our worlds would orbit near enough to touch.
She was inducted into Heaven. It was called by a different name, Helios, but it was the same paradise most people had been raised to believe. To this ethereal land, it was the elemental Storks, the great white angels, who escorted Septima and robbed me of my fraction of time, my sliver of opportunity. It was impossible for a servant of the dark like me to steal even a glimpse of her or to send word to where she was. Septima and I had drifted close and were worlds apart again, this time forever. The only chance, my predecessor Death explained, lay in Septima’s choosing to be reborn to earth. And tragically, to be r
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