Reaper Chronicles

The night he arrived, the world forgot how to breathe. Candles faltered, clocks stilled, and shadows pressed close to the walls. He did not come with thunder or fire, but with silence, an emptiness so absolute it carved space for him to exist. In his hand rested the scythe, though he had never learned to hold it. In his chest, no heart stirred, yet every heartbeat in the world now belonged to him."Do not curse memory, even when it wounds. It is the divine scar that proves you walked the earth. You are not gone," he whispered, to souls, but you are written into the vineyards of this earth, Into me, the Reaper. The Reaper had taken its first step upon the soil. The scythe curved into his hand, and in its shadow, the first soul was taken. Death had learned to walk the earth.