The Silent Watcher
The Silent Watcher There is a story, whispered by firelight, of the Grim Reaper —a figure cloaked in black, with hollow eyes that see through time, and a scythe that can cut not just flesh, but fate itself. He is the shadow behind every ending, the silent watcher at the door of death. But there’s one story few dare to tell, of a night when the Reaper came for someone he didn’t expect . It was a bitter winter night when sixteen-year-old Thomas found himself alone in the woods. He had been angry—fighting with his father, storming off into the dark—and now, lost and cold, he stumbled through the snow, breath coming in ragged clouds. Then, in the stillness, he saw him. The Grim Reaper . A figure standing tall and still beneath the bare trees, his cloak billowing in a wind that did not touch the boy. The scythe shimmered like a blade of night itself, and the Reaper’s face was hidden beneath the deep hood—yet Thomas felt those eyes, ancient and hollow, piercing into his soul. T...