Her back is towards us as she appears to be making a coffee, but the colour looks like it’s almost drained from her, her figure appearing almost translucent and misty. When she turns to the fridge, I see that everything she interacts with is almost like a hologram. Her misty version of the fridge opens, but the actual fridge stays closed. Like she’s in her own world and doesn’t notice. When she turns around with the milk, I see a gaping hole in her eye around what looks to be a spoon. The paper in my hand tells me that she died impaling herself on a spoon…What a shitty way to go.
“You will reap all sorts of souls. Humans tend to be the least aware, and they know nothing about other creatures, so it’s always interesting to see how they react to being reaped.” Ss muses.
“So what do we do?!” Haiden bounces with excitement. Ss looks up to his crown.
“You don’t do anything here. This is not your role. It seems that there are multiple Kings; you have each been assigned a role already. This one is for Death.” He turns and points to Xavier. “You and the Queen will be the only ones reaping the souls.”
Xavier swallows hard and nods. “Okay. What do I do?”
“Bring forth your scythe,” Ss says simply, and I see Xavier concentrating before he mists and arge scythe appears in his hand, a hooded robe over his figure. In this moment, he looks every bit of death.
“Now, you reap,” Ss says, like it’s obvious.
“What, like just swing and go?”
“Basically.” Ss shrugs. “You can, if you choose, try tofort the soul, speak to them, exin what is happening, but you don’t have to. You can just simply ‘swing and go’, if you wish.”
Xavier nods again before slowly approaching Lauren, and we all stand back and watch the scene unfold. He attempts to speak to her, but she doesn’t seem to understand that she is indeed dead. Instead, she starts screaming for help, trying to get attention from anyone, and Xavier just raises his scythe and swings. It slices through her misty figure, and she disappears into thin air. He walks back to us, the scythe and hood disappearing as he looks at us. “She didn’t want to listen.” He mumbles.
“Perfect. Now, let’s go back.” Ss waves for a portal, and I make one, envisioning the underworld hall we
were first in.
The portal back seems to be a bit easier. I figure this is something that will get easier with time. As soon as we’re back in the hall, Ss motions for us to follow him back out into the hallway. We go past the filing room, around the corner, down another hall, and then we reach a spiral staircase that takes far, far too long
to reach the bottom.
“Now, normally, you would just portal down here,” Ss says, catching his breath. “But as you didn’t know where to go, we had to take the long way.” We go through a few sets of heavy doors that apparently only
open for those intended to pass through until we’re in a massive dark hall that stretches well beyond what my eyes can see. Ss turns to Haiden. “Conquest, I believe this would be your cement.” Haiden’s eyes sparkle as we pass by many differentrge cells full of misty, colour-drained souls until we reach anotherrge room with a cell door. This one is full of mindless wandering souls that are muttering to themselves things that must have had something to do with their lives. “This is where you will greet the freshly reaped souls. You tell them what they need to know, and organise them into cells based on their arrival dates.”
“So I basically say, ‘hello, wee to the underworld, here’s your room for your stay?”
“Basically. Then you, Famine.” He turns to Levi. “You will then go through each of the cells and assess
their souls.”
“Okay…how do we do that?” Levi questions.
“Let’s find your newest soul.” He turns to Haiden expectantly.
“I’m guessing this is a think it will and it does kind of situation?”
Ss doesn’t answer as Haiden concentrates, most likely thinking of Lauren, and then it’s as if a light bulb goes off in his head as he starts weaving through the crowd of souls until he reaches Lauren, who is mindlessly wandering around muttering about needing to make a coffee.
“Hello, Lauren, wee to the underworld!” Haiden says, like it’s a big TA DA moment, and Lauren just looks at him, confused, as Haiden turns around to Ss, silently questioning what to do now. Ss tilts his head in the direction of the cells, and Haiden picks up.
“If you’d like toe with me this way, we’re going to get youfortable until you’re ready to be assessed for cement.”
We walk along the hallway of cells for what feels like forever until we reach one at the very end that’s only half full, and Haiden opens his arm to show Lauren. When she doesn’t move, he huffs out a breath.
“Look, I know this is all some crazy shit,dy, but you died, this is the next step. Surely you have people waiting for you in the next ce?”
She nods slowly, still unsure.
“If you’d like to see those people, we need to go through these steps to get you there, okay?”
“Okay…” She says quietly, stepping into the cell.
Ss motions for Levi to step forward.
“Now, usually, you would be starting at that end.” He points down the hallway. “But we’ll just start with Lauren today. I want you to stand in front of her and envision her aura, her lifeforce, let yourself open her mind and see the most prominent moments in her life. Once you’ve done that, you decide if they’re mostly
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good or bad.”
Levi does just that, closing his eyes to concentrate, and he sucks in arge breath like he’s just seen the devil himself…ironic really.
Ss doesn’t ask what he saw or what his decision is. Based on Levi’s reaction, we can all already tell.
“Right then. Now we ce her in the underworld, again, this would usually be where you would portal to the next ce, but we’ll take the long way.” Turning to Noah, he says, “War. This final part is for you.”
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Not enjoying the Subject change, underworld, etc. Doesn’t seem to fit. Just stuck it in.
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Goddess Of The Underworld.