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Submitted to Contest #319
The first child that Death came to claim was unlike any other. She was born in a time before children were taught to fear Death and she stared up at him when he came, silent and curious and watchful. She cooed at him as he reached out a long, thin-fingered hand to gently smooth unkempt chestnut hair out of her eyes, and he pulled his hand back. It was sad, to take a child this young.He learned a long time ago, though, that when the call came, he could not ignore it. There was a time, when Life and Death were still young in this world, when h...
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