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position.
    “Dank,” I repeated.
    “It was a Voodoo doctor that you
visited that day Pagan. Your mother allowed evil magic to save your
body.”
    What! I swallowed the bile in my
throat. What was he talking about? Voodoo wasn’t real but the fear
overtaking my body told me it believed in Voodoo. It knew something
I didn’t.
    “I don’t understand,” I managed to
choke out over the gripping terror clogging my airways.
    “I’m going to find a way to fix
this. Evil has a claim on your soul. Deities don’t associate with
voodoo spirits. They aren’t all powerful but they can use their
power over humans to cause pain. A restitution must be made in
order to send them away from you. I can protect you but the spirit
after you is the most powerful voodoo spirit out there. It won’t go
away without a fight.”
    “Leif is a... a voodoo spirit?”
That couldn’t be right. Leif wasn’t evil.
    “Pagan, those who don’t have souls
can only belong to one place. The Creator does not create soulless
creatures. He has no use for them. A soul can only be created by
the Creator. Therefore, all that doesn’t contain a soul is evil.
Leif is the product of one of the strongest evil spirits there is.
The Voodoo lord of the dead, Ghede, is powerful because of the
chants and prayers he receives from humans. Leif is his creation.
His child. Leif is the prince of the dead within the Voodoo
religion. Your connection to him is the reason you see souls.
Before you were sick, before your mother took you to the voodoo
doctor, had you ever seen a soul?”
    I couldn’t remember. This was too
much. Voodoo? My mother saved me with Voodoo? Oh God.
    “How... how can you fix this?” I
asked, needing someone to reassure me it was going to be okay.
Maybe this was just another dream. Maybe I would wake up and I
would be normal again.
    Dank dropped his arms from around
me and stood up. I didn’t like the distance. I wanted him
close.
    “When I’m not taking souls I will
be finding a way to end this,” he paused then looked away from me,
“Gee is going to come stay with you until I’ve handled
this.”
    What? No!
    “You mean you’re leaving?” I fought
the tears stinging my eyes and threatening to spill. I couldn’t do
this without him here. I wanted to be strong and fearless but right
now I just needed him near me.
    Dank let out a sigh and closed his
eyes and ran his hand over his face. I knew I was making this hard
on him but I didn’t want him to go away. Even if I loved Gee, I
wanted Dank.
    “There is no other answer to this
Pagan. I can’t exactly forego my job. I still have to take souls.
All my free time will to be focused on keeping you
safe.”
    “But--”
    “PAGAN! BREAKFAST!” my mother’s
voice rang up the stairs interrupting my attempt at
begging.
    “Go get ready Pagan. Go to school.
I won’t stay gone completely. Every chance I get I’ll be right
here.”
    “You promise?”
    “Yes.”
     

    “Alright Peggy Ann, where we headed
first?”
    I turned to look at Gee who had
fallen in step beside me, I realized she didn’t look like an
ethereal “transporter” but instead the Gee I’d met in the mental
hospital. Her blond hair was spiky and bleached white. Her eyebrow
was again pierced and it looked like she’d added another small bar
beside it. The diamond in her nose was no doubt very real and, of
course, she had to be wearing black lipstick. She made the wanna be
goths look pathetic in their attempts to pull off the
style.
    “Whatcha staring at Peggy Ann? You
miss me that much?”
    “I’d forgotten how well you can
pull off the crazy bad-ass look.”
    Gee burst into a cackle of
laughter. “You said ass,” Gee announced rather loudly causing me to
wince a little. “My little princess is getting some bite to
her.”
    Rolling my eyes I glanced past Gee
to see Miranda standing by her locker with Wyatt watching me with a
horrified expression on her face. She’d remember Gee from the crazy
house. Crap. I