for so many years? Not a place she wanted to go at the
moment.
Instead, she shrugged. “Somethingwas there. Soul
reaper’s the most likely answer. And the worst-case
scenario, isn’t it?”
Calliope was silent for a moment. “Yes, I’d say it is.”
Closing her eyes, Roxy pressed against her gritty
lids with her thumb and forefinger. “They want to bring
the dead back to life.” She dropped her hand and
glanced at Calliope. “Thatiswhat they want, right?
And we want to make certain the dead stay dead. So
I’d say that if a reaper has me in his sights, our odds of
success just dropped to the bottom of the toilet. I’d also
venture to guess that we’re onto something. Otherwise, why would they bother with me?”
“It wasn’t a soul reaper.” Calliope’s tone was uncharacteristically emphatic.
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“And you know this because…?”
“Because you sensed the being that was watching
you, and if it had been a reaper, you would never have
known he was there. Not unless he wanted you to.
They can practically move between molecules, disturbing nothing. Not air. Not sound. Not light. They are
there, but not there.”
Calliope wasn’t telling her anything she didn’t already know. And, as always, she wondered why Dagan
Krayl had let her see him all those years ago. Why he’d
saved her. Helped her. Why he’d let her live. She
couldn’t ask Calliope those questions. It would only
raise suspicion about her own loyalty to the Daughters
of Aset.
They’d wonder if she were a spy.
