Chapter 29

We all arrived at the hospital, scythes activated so that the humans couldn't see us. I was nervous but determined to help. Splitting up, we each began to wander through the hospital, keeping an eye out for the Memitim.

I was in oncology when I felt a soul call out to me. Walking into a room, I noticed a small child in a bed. She was sick, and there was no coming back from this. I walked closer to her bed and gently stroked her hair out of her face.

"It's going to be okay, little one." I spoke soothing words of reassurance before gently touching the tip of my scythe to her chest, severing the ties that bound her soul immediately. A soft sigh escaped her lips, and gratitude shone in her eyes before they went dull.

Her parents, sitting by her bed, startled when the monitor beside her flatlined. One of her mothers began crying while the other called for the doctor. It broke my heart to watch this, so I quickly left the room, bumping into Thanatos on my way out.

"Kifo?"

Tears ran down my cheeks, and I clung to him. He didn't have to ask me what had happened. We could hear the commotion coming from the hospital room.

Thanatos quickly opened a portal and escorted me through it and into his office. There he held me and tried to soothe me. He spoke words of reassurance and told me it was okay to cry, especially over having to reap a child.

We didn't go back to the hospital. Instead, we curled up on the couch in Thanatos' office and sat silently while I processed what had just happened.

I'd reaped my first soul with my scythe, and it was a child. She couldn't have been any older than six. It killed me to have done that, though I know it was her time, and she was grateful for the release.