Descent
she glared up at the writhing mass of shadows on the ceiling, certain that the god of death was literally looking down at her now through the many of souls enlisted under the two of their merged essence, “Can you please just stop being confusing for once? I ask you this once more, Thanatos: what would you have me do?”
‘The right question is: what would you do?’
She gritted her teeth, “For starters, I would have cared about him.”
Thanatos was quiet for a long time.
And when he finally spoke up, his voice was just as quiet, ‘That… would have been the right thing to do,’
This time, it was her turn to scoff–though for some reason, it sounded more like a helpless sob, “But you know I can’t have t