Claimed by Death
“That was the system working as designed. A child’s soul touched the threshold and crossed. Death guided her, as he always does when a soul is ready.”
Fate studies me.
“You are certain?”
“I judged it myself,” I answer. “It was passage, not reversal.”
He processes this in silence.
Then, softer, “Then why did the Reapers lean?”
At that, the Weave trembles.
Reapers are meant to witness, not influence. They record mortality. They do not shape it.
Yet around Nora, they gather.
“They lean because she lightens what they watch,” I say.
Fate turns sharply.
“Explain.”
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