Golden Chap 4

She made me sign literally 600 papers, and she read 100 rules and terms of use. It took a week, but she finally pocketed her pen and gave me a little glowing ball. It took me a while to realize what it was, but I figured it out. Page 658 exactly, the big book of ghosts, paragraph 7 or 8, it stated;

The olive ball (shown above) holds pure sky, a piece taken from the heavens. If a ghost has one, it may leave the room of which it had died in. Given to them after 1 year of death.

I shook with anger. "I've been dead for 6 years now, and I never had any visits!!!" "You weren't dead at that time." she smiled. Your soul was. I stumbled backward and would of hit my head on the chair if I was still alive. Instead I fell right through it. "What do you mean, my soul was?" I said, picking up my olive ball. "While you watched your mothers grave be set on fire, you may not have known it, but a string inside of you snapped. The string called your live string, locally known as your life line is located in every soul. When it snaps, if you fall asleep, your soul dies. The only difference from being dead is that you don't fly." I smiled for what felt like the first time in years. Well, it had been. " Fly?"