TWO UNIQUE SOULS

Steve Castro

So how did you find out that I cannot die?

“I can see forty years into various potential futures,

and the only potential future where I wasn’t murdered,

was the potential future when you found out

that I was pregnant with our daughter,

so I focused in on that future alone and followed its path.

I noticed that you lived through situations that no human being should have been able to survive, so the only possible explanation was that you couldn’t die.”

How many will there be?

“Eight, and they’ll be here in exactly five hours.”

How will they all die?

“You will kill each individual with their very own weapon.”

Do we have time to get you pregnant?

As she led me to the master bedroom, she said

“I bought us two first class one way tickets to

Anchorage, Alaska. We leave in eight hours.

We should be there trouble free for nine years,

eight months and three days.”

That’s good to hear, I thought,

that would shatter my old record,

when I was left undisturbed for

four years and twelve days.

“That would also be a new record for me,”

she told me as she was taking off the belt

that I had previously used to strangle

three would be lovers.