Epilogue

Ten years have passed. Now that you have read this, you know. It can track you down, kill you and take your shadow. I am immortal, but I am cursed to walk the earth without a shadow. And to walk without a shadow, is to walk without a soul. You are the first one of the seven who will repay my debt. We’ll never meet again, I will never be on the other side. I will forever stay at this age, forever twenty three.
I’ve decided that seven lives mean nothing to me if I can live forever. For I am damned to walk the earth forever, and if I can choose the age I will be forever, this is it.
But I thank you.