Var raised one eyebrow at my request. With that look, he didn’t need to answer, I already knew what he was going to say.
“Never mind, forget I asked,” I quickly added.
He kept staring at me. “How serious are you about this?”
“About getting my powers back? Very serious.”
“No, about stopping him from creating an Afterlife for all, even elementals that aren’t Assistants.” He rubbed his beard pensively. “You’re currently not an Assistant. If you died, you’d have nowhere to go.”
A painful statement that I tried not to think about. This wasn’t about my mortality or what I wanted, this was about stopping an awful man from gaining even more control than he already had.
“People can’t just go making their own Afterlives,” I protested. “And he’s dangerous and violent.”
“So you’re okay being se
