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My breath shudders as I am slammed into the concrete wall. My vision goes blurry for a second before I get up again. The man opposite from me gasps. “What….. What are you?” I look at him and my face conveys everything I cannot say aloud. My oath binds me. I must act. He shudders again as I start forward. As he collapses to the ground I stand above him and whisper “Welcome to the afterlife.” My torso shudders as my muscles bunch and my wings spread in the predawn light. As I draw his soul to me, I feel a great weight slam into my side. The world goes dark as the soul is wrenched from my grasp. I gasp and sit up in bed, my heart racing with dread at the memory. My life is complicated and it’s hard to explain why, not without condemning anyone who reads this to death. Because no one can know what I am. Or why I’m here.