(Continues from Lively)

I touched the dagger, but my fingers failed
to penetrate, so I wrapped my fading
hand around its cold hilt and a voice hailed
me, offering a ticket for flying

first class to hell courtesy of the bard.
Compassionate death tried to punch my card.

I dropped the dagger. Since I’m non-corporeal, it continued to lay there glaring at me. Or rather something looked through the dagger’s gems at me. Nothing had prepared me for a weapon serving as a window for something else.

Fighting the urge to withdraw to a corner of the trunk, I stood my ground. I felt my gaze pulled again to the fell blade. This time, I saw a universe yawn and a reaper man kissing a skeletal girl. She slipped the dagger out of her pocket and into the chest of her costumed lover. Under the paint and eyeliner applied stitches, she was more of a creature feature than a damsel in demon-ridden distress.

Though there was something wicked stirring in her soul and it locked in its sights on me. Darkness gathered around the blade blackening it. I backed up, but my non-corporeal body failed to phase through the cruiser’s thin fiberglass shell. Outstanding, I was locked in a trunk with an unimaginable foe.

I put up my dukes. If this creature wanted a fight, I’d give it one. Red light drenched the car slamming to a halt. The sudden stop jarred the blade and dispersed the thing manifesting. But it would return, and when it did, I’d be ready to greet it.

Find the earlier parts of this series here.

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