Emissary of Death
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And death whispered to him, "Kill everyone whose face I show you. Take the lives of the good and the bad. Of poor and the rich. Choose not of your own desire and show no mercy. Forget your humanity so that you may save them."
This is a short story in the same world as my book The White Shadow, allowing just a quick glimpse into the life of death's favorite mercenary, or rather, the reaper.
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