Chapter 14: TruthThe sun was setting on the horizon when Conal found me. The day had passed in an incessant blur of worry, pondering Lucas's offer and finding another dozen reasons why I couldn't accept it. Lucas had remained quiet, giving me the opportunity to reach out to the other spirits, asking for their advice.
If anything, what they explained made me even more desperate to find an alternate option. Allowing Lucas to do this would be the spirit equivalent of sending him to purgatory. Remembering the numerous discussions we'd conducted regarding his soul and finding peace in the afterlife, it seemed disobeying Nememiah would put him in danger of exactly what he'd feared – an eternity of endless nothingness, where his consciousness would remain, but he had nothing and no-one to provid
