Chapter 255-2

"Megan!" Lucius. The little boy scrambled to my side, half-climbing over Fenton to reach me. His white blonde hair was tousled and sticking up at odd angles, dirt still smudged his face giving him an almost-feral look, but he was unhurt and that was all I cared about. He cocked his head to one side, his expression too solemn for a child his age and then, without saying a word, he pulled off his gloves and held out his hand. "You're going back?" Harper said, his voice full of alarm. "Megan, you can't!" "I have to," I said as calmly as I could. "And you have to come with me." "What?" Lucius looked from Harper back to me, one eyebrow raised. "They won't like it, Megan. They won't like it at all." The dead. He was talking about the dead. It was one thing for me to go walking through Purgatory alive, but to take Harper there? The dead would flock to his vitality and life-force, desperate to take back what they lost, but I had no choice. I needed his help to get me there and it couldn't be a