Chapter 288 A proud father
In the car, Scarlet briefly dropped by the underworld and observed with her own eyes that Frost was still going strong. He was almost at the third crossing point.
So, she returned to the human world and went on to her meeting.
"Good morning governor." Tion greeted her for the first time that day.
"Good morning Tion, you have a smile on your face today. Do you have good news to share?"
"Yes governor, it's about my youngest son Eden, I was contacted by Principal Stash about putting him in the advanced painting class. He has been working very hard at it all through the holiday. Ten percent of my income goes towards buying painting supplies which are very rare governor. If you could please speak to someone about this I will be very grateful." He spoke like a proud father. Indeed painting by hand was a very rare skill in the interstellar. They used computers for everything, including painting. She had included hand painting in the curriculum of the children as a fun activity. It was wonderful to know that they were serious at it.
She remembered the shy little boy, Eden that she met for the first time when he needed a med bed because a space pirate stabbed him. She had also seen him a few times during story time in the library. He was not a very talkative boy, and he always kept to himself mostly in the library. It was good to know that he had something that he loved which he excelled at as well.
"Wow, that's amazing." She said. She almost made a joke about him raising a little Van Gogh but she kept it to herself. He would not understand anyway.
"Yes, painting by hand is a natural talent which is not very common. Even though his skills are still basic, he has much potential."
She saw the smile on Tion's face brighten even more as he explained. "If all goes well, in future people will pay thousands of star coins for one of his paintings. I have some pictures of his work, would you like to see?"
The proud father pulled out the pictures before she could even say yes or no.
She obliged him by looking at the pictures and complimenting them. She was no art connoisseur but the paintings did look nice to her eyes.
When Tion took his phone back, she asked him, "Did any of you see my brother Adler leave the castle in the morning?"
"I did governor." The guard that was driving the car said rather quickly.
It sounded to her like he was dying with anxiety to spill what he knew. She was asking because he had not picked her call this morning when she tried to invite him over for breakfast.
Alex also confirmed that he had left the castle.
"Oh, okay." She could see the surprise in both Tion's and the other guards eyes when she asked no further question on the matter.
But that was what she intended because she had no plans to engage in a tete-a-tete session with outsiders on a matter that concerned her brother.
At her office on the one hundredth floor of a building covered in blue stained glass, Scarlet stood in front of one of the large windows that allowed her to overlook a large part of the city. The view from here allowed her to see her castle, the bank, the supermarket and a few apartment buildings. The schools and farms were far from her view.
One of the largest buildings which was most outstanding from her view was department of defense building. It was not even completed because they were still enlarging it.
Using her grim reaper vision, she watched Precious, her assistant delivering the breakfast which she had just sent over for Adler.
She could see him, sitting in front of his computer monitor on his desk. He did not touch the breakfast, which made her sigh and look away.
A few seconds later, her phone buzzed and she received a thank you text from him.
She texted back, "You are welcome, and please call me soon. Don't brood for too long my darling brother."
It had to be related to Amara, the thing that was bothering him so much. And yet, according to the brown cat Adler and Arya spent the night in the library together. They read books, laughed and talked but fell asleep in there and only left in the morning. What did this mean?
"Hey, come to the grey star partner." She heard these words in her mind from a voice that belonged to Severus.
She blinked and appeared at the sire of the crater where she last fought soul eaters. He was there, waiting for her with a fresh shine to his fur.
"Did somebody go to the spa or groomers?" She teased him.
"I run into my mother." He answered. "We have fresh souls to collect, let's go."
"I don't sense them." She tried to feel the fresh souls but nothing called to her.
"Look for the ones that are about to die, not the ones that are dead. Tap into my senses and you will locate them."
That was quite easy to do since they were linked deeply. She could feel them, the souls whose light was slowly dimming, some faster than others. They were like candles which had burned and melted down to their last tiny wick which was seconds away from being snuffed out.
"Do you see this all the time?" She asked him.
"Yes," he answered. "We get names from the underworld of those whose lives will soon end and we track them. That's how we lead repears to them quickly. Now let's hurry, there is not much time left for these people."
She counted six souls whose lights were dimming quickly and they were clustered together as if they were in the same location.
Severus blinked and brought her to the edge of a cliff which was overlooking an ocean.
She presumed it to be an ocean because the water was deep blue, clear and beautiful.
She found herself standing on the sand, and she looked at Severus.
"There he said," His eyes were on the vast waters, and from far a small almost unnoticeable boat was floating on the water slowly, making its way back to the shore.
She used her vision to look closer, it was not like the boats from earth. This was more like an oval shaped orange and white capsule that could float on water. It had two engines on the side, and within, she could count six people, all of them dying.
"I am guessing those are souls we are here to pick up." She said.
"Do you want to wait from here or blink to the boat and be quick about it. If we wait for the boat to reach the shore, it's going to be twenty minutes."
She shook her head and looked around to see other humans running to the shore, they had probably been keeping an eye on the boat.
"I won't wait, I do not want to give any soul eaters clever ideas. You said that they live anywhere, even in the water."
"Wise choice." He told her and he blinked, sending them to the top of the small boat.
They stood right on the white cover of the pod whose top was transparent enough for her to see inside. Five men had died, but one was still alive but he had six breaths of life in him and the way he was looking up at her and Severus with a smile, it was like he knew why they were there.
She waited patiently and opened her soul gourd and then took their souls as soon as the last man took his last breath.
She pushed the boat to the shores with a small but powerful wind.
As she left, she could hear the mournful cries of those that found the bodies of the men.
"Do you pity the dead still?" Severus asked her.
"No," she answered.
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