“No,” the snarling skull roared, his paddle lifting then slamming down on me once more. “I forbid you from death.” The screams within me grew wild and suddenly something deep inside the fabric of all I was fractured, my grasp upon the Element of water falling away to nothing as the soul whose power I had unwillingly stolen was wrenched from my flesh. I stared at the translucent image of the dead man which rose from within me, his screams finally falling quiet as he let himself slip into the water and was swept away at speed. “I deny you passage,” the skeletal being hissed, the burn of his
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