<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
“I’m the Grim Reaper,” he announced in a booming voice, “and I’m here to take your soul.”
[[“No!! I have so much to live for!”]]
[[“Where are you taking it?”]]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $afterlife to it + 1)“To the afterlife. It’s where I take every soul,” the Grim Reaper said.
“Is it scary?” you asked.
He shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve never been.”
[[“Well, what if I told you I am madly in love with you?”]]
[[“If I knew this was how it was going to end, I would have done more.”]]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $body to it + 1)“Had,” he corrected. “You //had// so much to live for.” The Grim Reaper pointed at your dead body, where blood was pooling at the back of your head. “It’s the end of the line for you, so you might as well make it quick.”
[[“Well, what if I told you I am madly in love with you?”]]
[[“If I knew this was how it was going to end, I would have done more.”]]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $body to it + 1)“...okay.”
“That’s it?”
The Grim Reaper tapped his scythe on the ground. “I don’t know what you want me to do with that information.”
“You fall madly in love with me back, put me back in my body, and then we ride off into the sunset?”
“No.”
[[“WELL SCREW YOU YOU BASTARD CHEW TOY”]]
[[“...I don’t want to die.”]]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $afterlife to it + 1)“But you did know,” he said. “Well, maybe not like this, but you knew you were going to die eventually.” He hesitated. “Does that make you feel better?”
“Not particularly.”
“Oh.”
[[“WELL SCREW YOU YOU BASTARD CHEW TOY”]]
[[“...I don’t want to die.”]]<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $body to it + 1)“Well, [[screw you->sorry]], too.”<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(set: $afterlife to it + 1)“Not many people do.” The Grim Reaper sighed. “They often try to fight it, but death is inevitable for everyone. Might as well embrace it sooner or later.”
“I didn’t realize it would come so soon,” you said.
“I know.” He paused. “I’m [[sorry]].”<img src="https://i.imgur.com/2EiPfJn.png" alt="scythe" width="15" height="20" class="center">
(if:$afterlife > $body)[The Grim Reaper reached out his hand toward you. “Here,” he said.
“I’m scared,” you whispered.
“That’s okay.”
“I’m worried that when I go to the afterlife, there will be nothing.”
“That’s okay.”
“I’m…I’m…”
The Grim Reaper turned around. You exhaled and grabbed his hand. It’s cold.
You two stepped forward, and you disappeared into the night.
](if:$body > $afterlife)[The Grim Reaper massaged his temples. “Okay, you know what? Here.”
With a wave of his hand, your chest began to glow. Your soul rose and fluttered gracefully back into your body.
“There. I put you back. Now stop bothering me.”
The Grim Reaper disappeared into the night.
Yay! You were back in your body!
Your mangled bloody body. With a bunch of broken bones. That you couldn’t move.
Maybe you should have thought this through…
]
The End!
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In your defense, it was the middle of the night, so you could not possibly have seen that banana peel in the middle of the alleyway.
You were just trying to be a good citizen by checking out a weird sound that was coming from a wounded animal, but you suppose every good deed has its punishment.
That punishment? Your life.
You felt oddly light as your soul detached from your body. Your injured corpse stayed stuck on the ground.
Ew.
A cold (text-colour:red)[[presence]<dgs|] loomed over you.
(click: ?dgs)[...A cloaked skeleton holding a scythe?
[[Oh God.]]]
(set: $body to 0)
(set: $afterlife to 0)