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worrying. Now, you gonna eat that or not because it looks good.”
    I shook my head and Gee snatched it up and instantly a fork was in her hand.
    “Sip on your drink if you feel sick. You don’t want to go into shock. The sugar will help.”
    Nodding, I took a small sip of the cold sweet soda and my stomach seemed to settle some.
    “Why was he here?”
    “Cause he wanted to talk to you, I guess,” Gee replied before shoving another forkful of salad into her mouth.
    “The kids at school, his parents, they’re all forgetting him.”
    Gee nodded, “Yeah they are. He didn’t have a soul, Pagan. Remember, you are a soul. Your body is just the house for it. Those with souls will forget him because their souls were never attached to his. Can’t be attached to something that isn’t there.”
    “Why do I remember him?” My voice came out in a whisper. I was almost afraid to hear the answer to this one.
    Gee set the fork down in her bowl and sighed. That wasn’t good.
    “You’re different. He has... There is this... Ugh, why the hell didn’t Dankmar explain this crazy shit to you?” Gee placed the almost empty tortilla bowl on the coffee table and broke off a piece of it before leaning back again and looking at me.
    “Your soul was marked when you were a child. Leif has some sort of claim on your soul. Now, don’t go getting all freaked out. Dank is more than able to fix this but until he does Leif will be linked to you.”
    I didn’t like the sound of that. “Linked?” I choked out.
    Gee nodded and took another bite of the broken tortilla bowl in her hand. She was handling all this so casually. Maybe I needed to calm down. She wasn’t worried. But... linked?
    “Stop frowning, Peggy Ann. It isn’t all that bad. So, here’s the deal: your mom made a bad decision. You have a dark spirit determined to claim you. Things could be worse,” she finished with a shrug of her shoulders.
    “How? How could they be worse? A dark spirit?” I reached for my soda as my stomach rolled at the thought of what a dark spirit actually meant.
    “How could it be worse? Well, for starters, you could be without the complete devotion of Death himself. I mean, come on, Peggy Ann. What is one dark spirit up against Death? I mean, really.” Gee rolled her eyes and popped the last bite, of the tortilla bowl she was holding, into her mouth.
    I soaked in her words wishing they were more comforting.
    “You got anything good recorded on this thing?” Gee asked, reaching for the remote control.
    “Um, yes just watch whatever,” I muttered and sipped at my drink wishing Dank would come home. Now.

Chapter Five

    Pagan

    “Please. If you can save her then just do it! Do whatever you have to,” my mommy begged with tears streaming down her face.
    The wrinkled old lady stared down at me. Her white hair stood out against her dark skin. She studied me carefully before lifting her glassy gaze back to my mother. “You axe me for gris-gris dat wilt cause tings you mightna want.”
    “Anything. I’m begging you, anything you can do. The doctors can’t help her. She’s dying. Anything, please,” my mommy’s voice broke as she let out a loud sob.
    “Etel ne’er passe’ tis you know,” the old lady said as she hobbled over to a shelf with hundreds of containers filled with strange things I didn’t recognize. “What you axe don matta. Ain’t non udder way. If de beb he want ta live. He make dat call.”
    I watched as she shuffled around mixing different items she took off the shelf while she muttered to herself.
    “Who is he?” I heard my mommy ask.
    I had been wondering that myself. He seemed to be calling the shots not the old lady. Why Mommy was asking her to help me I didn’t understand. She didn’t look like any doctor I’d ever seen. When I’d fallen asleep the white walls of the hospital room I’d spent the last few months in were the last thing I remembered seeing. Then I woke up and I was here. With this strange woman