Yours Celestially by Al Hess

Author:Al Hess [Hess, Al]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kraken Collective
Published: 2023-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

13

The Resurrected

ꝏ Hey, Metatron! This is Sasha Roborovskiy. Do you remember me? I’m Arthur’s assistant at Renascenz now. I don’t know how or why it happened, but I can still sense you outside of Limbo, and I know what you’re going through right now. You think about Rodrigo so much that I almost feel like I know him too. You love him too much to just give up and be content mourning what you could have had.

I tilt the phone toward Corvin. “Yeah?”

“Good so far. Send it.”

I hit enter, and the message pops up on a pastel pink background punctuated by stylized clouds. After a moment of staring with my stomach twisted into a cinnamon-sugar pretzel, I realize the clouds are moving, revealing a crescent moon as they drift past. “Renascenz is really into the celestial theme, huh?”

“It’s kind of cliché, I suppose. I’ve always hated their shitty infinity loop logo.” He wrinkles his nose. “It looks like a drunken figure eight. Or a butt. I’m glad we’re working on a mascot design with Metatron’s likeness as inspiration. That’s far more memorable. And much better than the obol they tried to use in a couple of advertisements. Not the obol here”—he taps the back of his neck—“but an actual obol from ancient Greece; it was a copper coin with a lumpy-looking bee in the center. No one knew what the hell it was or what it was referencing. The only thing memorable about it is it somehow morphed into a joke that people enrolled in the program had a coin slot in the back of their heads. Insert twenty-five cents to start a new life.”

I snort. Thank God for his stream of conversation. It’s taking the edge off my nerves, even if it isn’t stopping me from glancing back at the chat screen on the phone every two seconds. “Do you have an obol? Are you enrolled in the program?” I’m not going to assume that everyone who works at the company is. It could just be another job to them, not something they want to participate in.

“Yeah. Though I’m undecided if that’s a blessing or a curse.”

“I wonder that myself sometimes…” I want to ask him why he’s enrolled but his husband wasn’t. If his death was what spurred him to enroll later. But it’s clear he doesn’t want to talk about him, and I’m not—

The phone vibrates, and my heart leaps. Below my message is a response:

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