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All Chapters of Fire: Chapter 131 - Chapter 132
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Part One Hundred and Thirty
Fire/BurntAsh3s
“Adara,” I said as I felt the darkness surrounding me.I opened my eyes and I saw Death sitting in his armchair. I was back in Helheim. I knew it was coming. I had tried to hold out as long as possible and not to use death magic, but in the end I had no choice, it was me or her. My choices hadn’t been black and white, they’d been riddled with fear and the unknown, but that was only half true. Not all of it was unknown, I’d known I would end up here again. I had made peace with it.Death sat patiently tapping his fingers against the leather of the chair. He smiled when he saw my eyes open and stood up. He was dressed in a black suit with a red handkerchief folded into his breast pocket. If this had been anyone other than Death, I would have said he looked sharp.“Oh Kiran, back again so soon,” he said to me and I stood up.“I tried, believe me, this is not where I want to be. But it was a choice between me and my family and her, I chose them,” I said to him and he stopped inches from m
Last Updated : 2025-02-22Part One Hundred and Thirty-One
Fire/BurntAsh3s
Some days Death showed me my children, other days he let me burn for hours on end. On rare occasions I was with Adara or Malachi or James. He wanted me to witness their grief and their pain and feel it deep in my soul. It was the worst punishment I’d ever suffered through.He took such pleasure in my pain that I stopped reacting to whatever they felt and turned my emotions off. He let me burn extra-long when I did that and I don’t know what hurt more, their pain or mine. I felt numb to it all, even their emotions because I was beginning to feel like I had when I’d taken Malachi’s pain, before going to Wolf Peak. I felt weak.Finally one day he let me sit down and said we should talk, man to man, and I laughed at him. I had clearly lost my mind and I had no idea how long I’d been there with him because there was no measure of time. There was only pain.“You’re not a man,” I said to him and he looked hurt.“Don’t be so mean, here I can be whatever I want,” he said and I just looked at h
Last Updated : 2025-02-23
