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Entry for the Open Novella Contest II Writing Prompt #7 Soul Sickness --- The moment you lie you fall into debt. The moment you steal you go further into debt. The moment you kill you get buried in debt. Your sins are debt. And in death, your debt must be paid. Only then will you reach salvation. ... A Debt Collector is one who roams the world with a list and returns with a bag of souls, bringing them to their judgement. Saviour had resigned himself to his work, only waiting for the moment his debt is repaid but his monotonous life is brought into disarray by the optimistic Empathizer Hope who falls sick after trying to escape her duty. Hope will need to feed on souls to recover or she'll continue to expiry and never be reborn. Will Saviour choose to save Hope at the risk of being caught and ending the same as her or will he venture forth into the world? Killing those whose time has not been decreed?
Soul 1
