“Quickly, now,” the male Reaper beside Lily hissed, taking hold of Ogden, casting away the air so he landed on the floor between them. “Do it fast,” Lily encouraged. “Let’s wake him first, let him see the creatures he scorned have come to reap justice from his bones,” Grey said keenly, reaching forward to wake him and making my heart judder from what he’d said. This wasn’t right. Why was Ogden being pulled out here in the middle of the night in secret? The Reapers’ punishments were always public. What point was there to this? Grey was a thin sort of man, his cheeks hollow and his eyes sunken,
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