Kim by T Cooper

Author:T Cooper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

Sweet Angel,

I don’t know how much time I have left here with you. I really wanted to see you through your Cycle and be there at your Forever Ceremony, but it’s looking like that isn’t going to be possible. I can feel the days slipping away and while I don’t love it, there is nothing to be done, so I may as well enjoy what I can while I’m still here.

With or without me, I know you are going to find your way and make the right decision. You are an incredibly special person, and I’m proud to have known you through a handful of your lives. I could not have asked for more from a grandchild.

The reason I’m writing you this letter is because I wanted to share something important with you. Your father didn’t want me to tell you, but I’m too old for statutes and protocol, and besides, I am still his mother and he is not in charge, much as he’d like to think he is.

What I hope to do is offer you some comfort. Which is more important than rules any day. I couldn’t help but notice how sad you’ve been since your friend Chase passed. It was a terrible thing that happened, and I can see you tearing yourself up with guilt. That, however, is a useless emotion, a giant waste of time and energy. Guilt serves no one and changes nothing. If you don’t take my word for it, I’m confident you’ll discover that on your own someday.

Guilt is especially useless in your case, because your friend Chase isn’t truly gone forever.

I suppose they don’t want you to know this because it might change how you act during your Cycle, or influence your decision about your Mono, but in actuality there is a system, a method to all this madness.

Your Chase was a recycled version of many other Chases throughout the centuries. If you take a look at the enclosed photo, you will see that I was the Chase V for a year during my Cycle. And when I didn’t choose Chase as my Mono, he was released back into the universe, free to be inhabited by a new Changer just beginning his or her Cycle at some point after me.

Which means that Chase, as an identity, will return. That identity will go on and on, until somebody selects it as his Mono, and completes a lifetime as that V.

I’m sure this is confusing, my love. And more than a little unnerving. I’m still debating whether I should tell you even as I’m sitting here writing. But it’s no accident you felt so drawn to this boy, and likely no accident that he protected you the way he did. And it is no wonder you feel his loss so keenly. But you don’t have to. Chase will live on. Somewhere. Somehow.

And one day, eventually, we will all know what it’s like to be somebody else. To live as another, feel their pain, their joy, make their mistakes, celebrate their triumphs.

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