Ruin's Lot by ID Johnson

Author:ID Johnson [Johnson, ID]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

Ru stood on the top of a mountain, barren of any sort of life except for a few scraggly bushes in the distance. She felt the wind pick up, blowing the long white dress she wore out behind her.

She was looking down into a rocky cavern illuminated by the moonlight, but she felt a presence behind her. Turning slowly, she wasn’t at all surprised to see the man standing there. Dressed in his black cloak, with his hood down around his shoulders, he stared at her. Even from twenty feet away, his green eyes seemed to penetrate her very soul.

“How are you, Rune?” he asked, his melodic voice ringing out into the open air and dancing on the breeze. This time, his mouth moved. It was as if they were old friends.

“Thanatos,” she said, acknowledging him. “What are we doing here?”

“I wanted to speak to you,” he replied, nonchalantly. “You’ve received a lot of information, some of it more reliable than the rest. I wanted to let you know I can help you understand.”

“You can help me?” she replied, fighting a grin. “But you’re Death. You take the souls of the unmarked.” The words were not her own; she’d discovered them in her research, confirmation of Cutter’s story.

He smiled. “That’s not true, Ru. I prevent catastrophe. I take the souls of those who would cause utter chaos if they were not stopped. You can’t possibly know that, but I can. My father knows all. He sends me to claim those who must be stopped.”

Ru didn’t believe him, but it was an interesting explanation. “Then why do the Keepers hunt you?”

“I wish I had an answer for that.” His eyes looked woeful. “We are not so different, the Keepers and myself. They seem to think they’ve been sent here by God, that they are doing His bidding. They take my brethren and sentence them to an eternity of torment. I set souls free, allow them to follow their own path. I do not condemn them to Hell the way the Keepers do. If you will come with me, Ru, I can show you.”

She found herself intrigued by his emotion and his candidness, though she still wasn’t certain a word he spoke was true. He seemed to believe it. “I can’t go with you,” she replied. “I don’t want to die.”

“I told you, I don’t wish to claim your soul. But you know, Ru, you and I are of the same blood. You know that your father was one of my father’s most trusted soldiers. That is, until the Keepers captured him and sent him away forever.”

Ru’s eyebrows shot up. “My father?” she repeated.

“Yes. Larkin.”

The sound of his name made something catch inside of her. Thanatos knew of her father, and it was the same name that Cutter had used. “You knew him?”

Thanatos shook his head. “He was banished when I was but a boy. I know of him, though. I know that his blood runs through your veins, and even though they’ve tried to convince you that you are not like me, you are.

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