The Lost Souls by K.D. Worth

Author:K.D. Worth [Worth, K.D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64405-291-4
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-07-19T05:00:00+00:00

KODY—Chapter 12

I LOOKED at Max in shock, and then a sudden sense of panic filled me. Gone was the happiness of the jazz funeral. I had celebrated this man’s life, had been so sure he was heaven-bound—yet here his soul stood, lost and alone.

Max’s eyes were wide. “He’s not supposed to be dead, is he?”

“No, he isn’t,” Slade agreed, studying the spirit across the street. “Yet he is.”

“W-where does h-he go, then?” Max stammered. Though he tried to act tough, he was as deeply affected by the natural call of a reaper to help the dead cross over as me.

Slade turned his gaze on us, his expression full-on teacher-mode. “When a reaper delivers the Touch, the opal ring heats as God’s holy spirit is channeled through that stone, giving you the power to separate soul from body. But only on people that are meant to die. That is order. Fate, destiny, whatever you choose to call it, but it was already foreordained. However, when a wraith kills someone who is not slated to die, it creates chaos. Not only are spirits choosing to not go to heaven because they do not believe, but there are lost souls who were never even given the choice.”

“So he’s a shade too?” Max clarified.

“Unwittingly, yes.”

I studied the man across the street and an overwhelming rush of pity filled me. A person never given the chance to see a door, no reaper, no guide to tell him everything would be okay or that he was forgiven and God loved him so he could move on.

Suddenly the image of a bridge hit me, the water churning below me, the aching sense of hopelessness… but then Max came. He made everything better. And poor Brady had been worried about his family and whether or not there was baseball in heaven. I’d been able to help him too.

But no one was here to help this man.

“We have to help him,” Max and I said at the same time.

“You will,” Slade assured us with a smile.

I took a steadying breath, noting Max did the same. Though I had known wraiths were out there killing people, leaving souls wandering, seeing one of those lost hurt my heart. More than that, it conjured my own earthly struggle, the sleepless nights, the loneliness and the doubt. I’d believed in God, but then, at times, I’d felt so forsaken—just like this man.

“Your purpose is to bring order where there once was chaos, Kody,” Slade whispered. “To heal the rift the wraiths put in the cosmic balance between heaven and earth. With Max’s support, you will find the strength and power to deliver these lost souls to God.”

“I will?” I said, my voice tiny.

Though consumed with a necessity to help that soul—and a mere moment ago, caught up in the dance, I’d felt confident—the memories of my own failings and doubt flooded my mind.

What if I can’t—

“That was what was, Kody,” Slade said in my mind. “Not what is or what will be.”

I stared

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