3. [WP] The Angel of Death has been cold, indifferent to the lives he reaps, but on...

[WP] The Angel of Death has been cold, indifferent to the lives he reaps, but on his latest reaping, he feels something abnormal. That feeling is sympathy.

  The reaper enters the room as the boy hung there, his body stretched and torn. His faint breath still enduring. "it must've been months since we last saw each other. You seem to be in quite a predicament this time" the reaper grabs the chains the boy hung from. The boy winced, his wounds barely bled and salt only left his eyes. "you never learn do you, You keep putting yourself close to death, we have to stop meeting like this.” The boy looks at the empty hood and feels the cold air come out of death’s mere presence. The boy attempts to crack a smile. “You’re the first to ever see me more than once before I’ve come to collect, is this truly what they mean by the human spirit? I’ve always sensed this intense flame forging your path. What truly drives you so?” The boy looks down as if he were thinking about it. He thought of his dreams and his grief stricken past, he remembered his drive to defy all the odds to claim his dream of returning what was lost.

“I understand now, this truly is what they call perseverance.” Death grabs the boys face and peered deep into his eyes and saw the aged eyes of a sage. His breath strengthened as he continued to remember his goals but his arms and legs failed him. “There is no use, the torturer cut your tendons, you can’t move.” The boy opened his mouth to speak but only heard a quiet moan. Death held up a small jar with the boys tongue floating in a solution. “You’ve lost so much blood, You’ve been tortured for a very long time and yet you continue to live without food or water. It’s just like the first time we met, The wound in your belly and the bitter cold wind consuming your body, yet you spat in my face and tore your cloak off your own body and wrapped your wounds up. Do you remember what you told me? You called me a figment of your imagination, well that wolf that came to finish you off didn’t think so. Your drive blinds you so, but you don’t care. You’ll do everything and anything to push forward, it’s as if your life has prepared you for this journey. I’ll never forget the time you ate poisonous mushrooms because you were starving in the forest and I just walked by and gave you a wave as you punched your stomach until you coughed up blood. 

I want to see you succeed. You’ve been burned, you’ve been maimed by rabid animals, You’ve been stabbed, you’ve started at me straight in the face many times, yet you still pick yourself up and press on. I really do wonder what you did this time to land yourself here.” The boy remembered, vagabonds running with jewels and a bloody knife, they collided with him as the guards swarmed in and took all three of them in. They tortured the two who lied to save their own hides and said he murdered the queen. They were given their freedom as their heads fell into the basket on the execution block. He remembered being so close to reaching his goal, to give her back what the young girl lost, a jeweled lion on a silver necklace, was it really to end now? He looked up at death. “I can’t leave you here like this, and It’s not what you’re thinking.” Death swung his scythe against the chains and grabbed the boy as he crumbled to the floor. He carried him out of the chamber, no one dared stand in his way. The master torturer froze as the air froze around him. Death removed his hood as he started at the man who mutilated the boy. “Your time is coming soon Fredrick” He opened the door to the rising sun. 

‘The boy closed his eyes and smiled, he felt the warm embrace of light warm his body. Death sat the boy down on a rock overlooking the castle as he pulled out the necklace and put it around the boys neck. “You have endured much on this journey, no rest, no peace and no happiness. Since the day you were born, you were called a bad omen. Go now, end your journey and find your happiness.” The boy closed his eyes as death put his hood back on, he awoke in an inn, his body renewed but covered in scars. Everything was given back to him as well as the necklace dangling off his neck. A knock on the door was heard, to reveal a familiar face ushered in by the inn keeper. He smiled and felt all of what he endured wash away. His journey was to end..
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