Scythe by Schubach Erik

Author:Schubach, Erik [Schubach, Erik]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Published: 2016-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3 – Key

She tilted her head in confusion then her eyes lit up in shock and she stuttered out, “You... you really don't know?”

I shook my head. She smiled and stroked my cheek, I leaned into the warmth and closed my eyes.

She said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world, “I am your Key.”

I opened my eyes and shrugged in confusion. She blinked in genuine surprise and confusion and asked, “Didn't your parents tell you?”

I shook my head and admitted in a small voice, “I don't know much about the curse. I got my first Calling the day I turned eighteen. My father told me a little about our curse, our sin, as I changed. We both went on the hunt that night, but only I returned.”

She placed both hands on my cheeks and lifted my head so our eyes could meet again. How was it possible that she seemed even more beautiful each time I looked upon her? It made no sense. I have never felt attraction so strongly for someone before. I just wanted to please this woman, but I felt ashamed that I didn't know what she wanted me to know.

She read this in my eyes and comforted me again, then looked at the ceiling like she could see through the entire building to the blue skies above. She spoke like she was teaching an ancient history class, “Every Scythe has the chance for redemption, to be released from the punishment which all of their bloodline must suffer for siding with the disciples of Satan.”

My heart skipped a beat at that. Redemption. I truly could get free of my demon? Father said that much, but not how.

He was going to tell me all after our first hunt, but they were waiting for us. The demons. They thought to take out a young Scythe, but my father's demon proved to be too much for their ambush, he died protecting me, before my demon could break free from the chains I had restrained it with to finish off the last of them.

She spoke like her thoughts were miles away, and she was grasping at them like they were an elusive mist trying to slip between her fingers, “When a Scythe is on the fringe of redemption, when the good they have done, dispatching evil from this realm, balances the debt of their tainted soul. Their Key will finally be allowed to find them. On the day your debt is paid, your Key can then unlock the shackles on your soul, break the chains that bind and set you free.”

Now my heart was threatening to beat right out of my chest. I blinked tears out of my eyes and looked at this wondrous woman. Trying to comprehend what she was saying. She released one of my cheeks, and I missed the contact almost immediately. She pulled up her shirt sleeve and there, burned into her skin, flaring with her bluish white soul fire was the number ninety-nine.

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