Chapter 62
It doesn’t take me too long to get the rest of Red Moon’s souls reaped. It was nice being able to see old faces, and the process was made easier when I discovered that showing them their death first and having them understand they were no longer living got them ready to move on. Once I’ve finished there, I decide that for Evelina’s sake, I’ll clear out Tolaris pack as well. I’m sure there would be souls there that she might like to see or know that they’re in their appropriate place, instead of wandering the mortal realm in an endless loop. The first few are easy, a couple of older warriors on the border who died in battle, a mother who died in childbirth, a few that died from heartbreak from the loss of their mates and then one piques my interest. Marius Malcome, an Alpha’s guard, died from being beheaded by the Alpha himself. Interesting indeed. I portal to his location, expecting to see the typical looping I’ve been seeing with new souls to be reaped, but I’m shocked to find that we’re in what looks to be a cell, and Marius is just kneeling on the floor, dead eyes staring directly forward at me.
“I’m ready.” He says, making me even more confused.
“You know you’re dead?” I ask.
“I sure hope so.”
“Alpha Marcus beheaded you. Why?”
His eyes blink, but they show no emotion as he speaks. “Of course he did. I tried to get the children out.”
“What children?”
He simply points to the door behind me. They say curiosity killed the cat, but fuck it, I’m curious. I walk through the door, and I swear my heart stops beating for a moment. It’s a large cement room, no windows, but there are multiple doors on every side, each looking like the cell door behind me, and gods, there must be almost a hundred or so kids here, all small, some are still babies…souls of children. They’re all in a loop together, some of the older kids, no more than four or five years old, are trying to hush the even younger ones as they speak around the room like they’re ready to escape, before they turn back around and do it all over again.
“He killed them in front of me. Made me watch through the door as he gassed them all.” Marius says beside me as he points to the roof where there are pipes, clearly used to deliver gas.
“Why?”
“Because they weren’t her. The one he waited for. The one the witches said would come.”
“Her? Who? What is even happening here?”
“I don’t know. I just remember being told to guard this room. To watch them, to see if any of them showed signs of abnormality from a typical pup. Other guards would bring in infants and newborns, and I would raise them here, watching them…until I couldn’t handle it any longer. I tried to get them out…! tried.”
I place my hand on his shoulder with a gentle nod.
“Are you ready?”
“What about the children?”
“They will be fine. I’ll be here with them, and they will end up in the waiting room with you soon.” Now that Haiden has remodelled it, calling it the waiting room sounds fitting. It sounds like a nicer place to go to next. With a final nod from Marius, I swing my scythe and reap his soul. Then I take an impossibly large breath…this next part is not going to be easy, and the children do not need to see what their death was like again, nor will they understand what is happening or where they are going next. So I do the next logical thing: I open a portal beside Haiden’s desk, reach out my arm, and pull him through.
“Hey! What the fuck, man?!” He says before he takes a look around the room. “What the fuck?” He says a lot quieter now.
“Something really fucked up has happened here in Tolaris Pack, Alpha Marcus has done this, and we will get to the bottom of it, but for right now, I need you to go back, tell Levi what has happened here, and have him prepare a nice room for the kids and put them at the top of the list of souls to sort out. Then go back to your waiting room and open a portal to let me know you’re ready for me to start sending them through to you. Got it?”
“Waiting room…that’s got a nice ring to it. Yep, got it, on it, going now.” He says goodbye before leaving. I remove my robe completely and opt to turn my scythe into something that looks like a little magic wand with a bright yellow star on the end before I fully enter the room and sit down in the middle of it. I start with the younger ones, bringing up my app to me able to identify them all. I start with Lucy Evans, 4 years old, who died by gas inhalation. I spot her
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walking close to me and I clean my throat. “Tacy! sey voltly as she stops to look at me from her swift walk across the room.
“Yes” the shorter t
“Lay, my mame is Xavier your friend Marius told me to help you get out of here. Would you like that?”
Her face morphs into one of shock and joy as she gasps.
“Yes! Marcy sent you Oh yes, please help us!
I’m going to help you. See this?” I wave my wand and add in some little sparkles that float off it for effect. “All I need to do is touch this to your heart, and you can leave here. Can we do that?
She walks straight up to me with a big smile.
“Yex, please!”
“Okay, but do you think you could help me tell your friends the same thing? I wouldn’t want anyone getting left behind.”
1 can do that! Yes!” She says in her sweet little voice. Lucy helps introduce me to the kids who can speak, and they’re all ready and willing, just as Haden’s thumbs up comes through an open portal, and I give one back before it closes.
“Okay, gays, let’s get you all to that better place now.”
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