I looked around at the now familiar darkness around me. Death would appear soon with the witch that I had burned. I would have to endure the pain of her soul burning and bargain with Death to give me life. I sighed. The last time he had me here for two days though it had felt like an eternity. I wasn’t looking forward to the soul burning part, it was a pain I couldn’t describe even if I wanted to. “Kiran, what a lovely surprise!” Death said as he appeared and walked closer to me. “I’m sure,” I said to him and crossed my arms over my chest. Death laughed at me. “You might have me believe that you want to die.” “I don’t want to die,” I said to him. I was sure that mere words wouldn’t convince him but with Death you could never be sure. The man was a bastard. “You keep on coming back so

