The Heart Stealer

Part 4

FOUR

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You may be wondering why Margarethe is so calm about the pass of her mother, like I've explained it was expected, but you see. This is where I come in. She sees me in her dreams, and I tell her secrets. I tell her secrets of people who will die soon. I tell her why. She doesn't think that I am real, more like her mind makes her a physic. I find it rather funny. In her dreams she imagines me as a magician. I spread my secrets through magic dust that meets her ear. I then disappear when she wakes up.

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Margarethe walks to her kitchen and grabs a bowl of leftovers from her fridge. She wasn't a cook, mostly it was soup. The only thing Liesel knew how to make from mama. So it was kept a tradition. When Margarethe was little she would ask Liesel about her mama. The way she answered was very wise and kind. I knew the day Liesel Meminger came to the earth that she would be a mother. Mostly because I could see into her future, but also because the kindness in her heart. Let me try to get the words to say here, for even though I am death, it is hard to remember much. After all, my brain is made of darkness. I believe I can imagine it in my head. If I close my tired eyes for a few seconds. The dead can wait. Liesel is important.

"Mama... Where is your mama?" Young Margarethe asked tugging on Liesel's dress.

"Well Margarethe. I have had two mamas. One that brought me here and tried her best, and one that taught me to be brave and loved me like any normal one would do, and the last is the woman I once stole books from. The one that took me in at the hardest times." She answered. Smiling slightly remembering her mother, mama, and the mayor's wife.

"But how can you have three mamas?" She asked.

"You can have all the mamas you want, but it is only true if she is given to you." She answered.

Margarethe didn't ask more after that.

I hope Margarethe turns out as kind as Liesel, but first she must stop drooling over this man. Silly love, slips away so easily.