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“They never show up,” Grant said. “What the hell is going on?”
I elbowed between them men. “For those of us who don’t have a field guide to hell on hand, what was that?”
Hunter pushed his hair from his face. “A reaper.”
“The thing that severs the connection between body and soul?”
Hunter nodded. “Yep. Reapers are one of the few things thatnobodyfucks with. Even Lucifer leaves them alone. Because they aren’t alive or dead, they don’t belong to the living or the dead realm. They don’tbelongto anyone.”
“They’re from purgatory.” I might not have seen one before, but I did understand what they were. They were, in a way, cousins of mine, something connected to the thing that seemed to make me different.
Kase was the one to answer, nodding. “Reapers don’t take notice of the living or the dead. They’re more like scavengers than anything else, beings that do their job and ignore everything else.”
“It was looking at me.”
“I mean, it stopped, but—” Hunter started to say.
“No. I felt it staring at me.”
Grant cursed under his breath. “You do not want a reaper taking an interest in you. They’re essentially invincible because they aren’t alive—never were—and they don’t have actual bodies to harm. If they want to snatch a soul from a body, they can do so with a touch and no one can do athing about it.”
I thought about the way it had seemed to look past my skin, into my spirit, into the part of my that wasn’t corporeal, and I shuddered. Just when I thought there wasn’t anything worse, that we had reached the end of bad shit that could ruin my day, it seemed like the universe wanted to throw another one into the mix.
Sure, soul-snatching mist creatures from purgatory.
What the hell was next?
