A Knight of Cold Graves by Clara Coulson

Author:Clara Coulson [Coulson, Clara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knite and Day Publishing
Published: 2020-03-19T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Tanner

“You know, I feel stupid in hindsight,” Laura said as she slid the IV needle out of Tanner’s hand. “I should’ve noticed that your life energy had been drained to an abnormally low level when you were first brought in. But I was so caught up in dealing with the side effects of the manticore poison that I didn’t even think to evaluate you spiritually.”

“Would that have made a difference in my treatment?” Tanner pressed the provided cotton ball over the tiny hole in the back of his hand. “I would’ve needed the breathing tube regardless, right? Because my lungs were compromised by the poison.”

She fixed a band-aid in place over the cotton ball. “Initially, no, it wouldn’t have made a difference in my treatment protocols. But it would have inclined me to check on your energy levels periodically, and at some point, I would’ve noticed two things.

“One, that you were autonomously siphoning your energy into healing magic, which would’ve prompted me to discontinue most of my treatments before you woke up. And two, that your store of life energy is so much larger than that of the average person that you are obviously an elevated revenant.”

Finally disconnected from all the medical equipment, Tanner swung his legs off the bed and pressed his bare feet against the cold floor. He’d shimmied into a pair of pale-blue scrubs shortly after Agent Smith left, but a pair of those grippy hospital socks had been conspicuously absent from the offered garments.

“What’s an elevated revenant?” He furrowed his brow. “My brain isn’t readily providing the answer.”

“Accessing relevant revenant memories on command takes a bit of practice. Because revenant memories aren’t technically your memories, but rather imprints of other people’s memories left on the soul. Which is why they don’t supersede your personality.”

She grabbed her stethoscope again and motioned for him to sit up straight so she could check his lungs to make sure they were up for walking. She had instructed him to take things at a snail’s pace, as his body still had much healing to do after today’s extended ordeal.

“Eventually though,” she continued, “searching your revenant memories for specific information will become second nature to you, like flipping through a book to find a certain passage.”

“And in the meantime?”

“I’ll humor you,” she said, pressing the disc of the stethoscope to his back. “The amount of life energy that a body possesses is largely random, with a small degree of genetic influence. When a regular person dies, the life energy within their body dissipates and the soul travels to the afterlife with only the basic spiritual energy that the soul needs to maintain its integrity.

“Generally, revenant souls follow the same process, with the caveat that they don’t stay in the afterlife. They enter a reincarnation cycle and eventually travel back to this plane to inhabit a new body.”

“So you’re saying that each time a revenant soul is reborn, their new body possesses a different amount of life energy from all the bodies

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