#Chapter 128 – Only Barely Dead

“If…if it were possible,” Blythe says, still looking down at his feet. “I’d like to be reincarnated…soon. I don’t want to go back to the Dead place – I don’t think I was really…there. And I don’t want my memories, if you please. I want to…try again. Start fresh.” Life hums, considering, and then nods. “It can be done, boy. If that is what you want.” “Does that really…matter?” Blythe asks, looking up at her, curious. “What I want?” “No,” Life says, shrugging and making me snap my gaze to her. “But your Goddessling has asked a boon of me. And forgive me, child, but you are…not particularly consequential in the upcoming struggles for cosmic power. So, I am inclined to grant your request.” He nods, his mouth pressing together. “Then that’s what I would want,” he says quietly, bowing again. “The fresh start.” A little cry breaks from me at the thought – at the realization, really, that Blythe…I mean, he’ll be reincarnated. But the man I know – the first man I ever loved – the swee