ThreyaMidnight

"So this is what they mean when they say your life flashes before your eyes when you die."

Betrayed. Battered. Broken. 

Evangeline Vermillion has had enough of her pathetic life. She was young—only in her early 20s—and she had planned to end it all by setting herself on fire. 

That was how she met Death—cold, dark, tall, and...handsome? Huh. Who knew the Grim Reaper could look like that? He takes her hand and guides her through the In-Between, the sacred realm between the Land of the Living and the Afterlife. Together, they revisit her most important memories. From the misfortunes of her childhood, to the chaos and bloodshed of the wrong kinds of love, Evangeline must confront the demons of her past to get to The Other Side.

Through all of the pain and anguish, Death stands with her, an enigmatic companion and unlikely confidant. And in their brief waltz between realms, Evangeline finally finds what she always wanted but never had: to belong and to be loved.

Waltz with Death

As soon as I closed the wooden door of The Maestro's office, I couldn't help but release a sigh of exhaustion.

The Maestro is one hell of a handful of beings.

"Wait...!" A realization struck me like lightning. "You still haven't told me about Fake Death's--"

I spun around in an attempt to go back inside the office. But once I did, I saw a cob wall with no door. Apparently, Fake Death was telling the truth when he said there was no way of telling how to get into the Maestro's office.

My shoulders slumped, and I let out another deep sigh as another unsolvable mystery entered the fray.

If Fake Death was literally a fake Death, then what the fuck was he?

"I should probably give up asking questions about things my mortal mind could never understand," I muttered to myself, shaking my head.

I looked around and observed the interior of the Death Headquarters.

The Reunion