Unexpectedly Dead by Jordaina Sydney Robinson

Author:Jordaina Sydney Robinson [Robinson, Jordaina Sydney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jordaina Sydney Robinson

Chapter Fifteen

I was stretched out on the grass a good distance away from the fort, staring at the sky when Sabrina strolled up.

“How was your day?” Sabrina eased down onto the grass. The evenings were getting colder. Soon we wouldn’t be able to sit outside and talk at all and would hurry inside to our GA meetings like all the other well-adjusted ghosts. It felt as if the universe were conspiring to cage me.

“I have had a day.”

“Since lunch time?” Sabrina asked. “How much could’ve happened in that tiny window of time?”

“I made a timeline of the killings which possibly discounted or pointed to each reaper as the killer depending on how you arranged the dates, then Madame Zorina got a message from Warren saying he’d been kidnapped, so Oz and I went to rescue him from Val and the IA. Only it wasn’t Warren, it was some guy who’d been pretending to be Warren for weeks now because they haven’t seen Warren since they asked him to steal the scythe. Then I went to visit Hades, whose scythe is mounted on the wall behind his desk and not being used as our murder weapon. He admitted that it was stolen, but only out of his possession for minutes. There are around a hundred thousand reapers in the world, but in the past few months, when the murders have been occurring, only our five reapers have been here. In Scarborough.” I lifted my head to look at her. “How was your afternoon?”

She shrugged. “I filed some stuff.”

“Cool.” I lay back down on the grass and stared up at the cloudy sky. Sabrina nudged my foot.

“So?”

I pushed myself to a sitting position. “You want it again from the top?”

“Please.”

So I explained again, but in more detail.

“You going to tell Charon about Hades having his scythe stolen?”

“Oh, boy, am I going to tell Charon.” I nodded. “But first we need to find out who’s reaping people.”

“Well, if Hades’ scythe was only out of his possession for seconds, and he’s right that no other reaper came into Scarborough, then it has to be one of the reapers,” Sabrina said. She frowned at my expression.

“You didn’t hear how they talked about people being accidentally reaped. Like, they genuinely seemed to believe it would bring about the apocalypse.”

“All of them?” She asked, and I nodded. “The timeline you made didn’t narrow it down?”

I shook my head. “Not everyone who was reaped was clear on when it happened. For some there was a possible window as long as ten days. And then depending on where on the timeline you plotted their deaths …”

Sabrina blew out a breath. “So, we’re saying that we’ve narrowed it down to being one of the five reapers you met, but we’re no clearer to who because of the squiffy timeline, but also that it couldn’t be any of the reapers you met because they’re all scared of bringing about the apocalypse?”

“Exactly. And I don't think it's Hades because I doubt that man would put the effort in to swing a scythe once, let alone a hundred times.

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