"between life and death"- 4

recap- A demi-god named death is helping to bring a man's wife back to life, in exchange for him to become a demi-god and abandon his former life as a mortal. the villainous Dalphana had just been defeated by Death. Dalphana is a demi-god of death that rebelled from the God of destruction and tried to steal Yun's (the man's) wife's soul.

"So, what happens now? When is my wife going to return to life?" Yun-death asked.
"You truely are dedicated to her, aren't you? I thought at first you'd wonder about your passing out, or about Dalphana's appearance, but no, your only thought is your wife. You should have been recruited by the demi-god dedication, not death. It's not good, really, you became death to bring life, and contradiction in itself, made greater since you are so dedicated, missing the life you could have with her. Death is the opposite of attachment, if you haven't realized it, Yun." Death said.
"Don't lecture me. I need her alive, but it does concern me why Dalphana decided to put her hand in the situation, if she is all kinds of evil as it seems..." Yun-death said.
"I don't know, the soul leeches were normal, her soul had been left unattended for a long time, but Dalphana's personal appearance? That is unusual, her coming to see thorugh a job she entrusted in a mortal." He paused as he gazed up into the cieling, expecting some rapture, it seemed. "She had convinced a mortal that she was the true death, and that we were what she threatens to be. She knew we were coming... and made a big deal of a normal woman's soul." Death stirred the thoughts in his head.
"Hey, she's MY wife." Yun-death shoved his voice out.
"She's as much married to me as she is to you now. You are not only dead, but death." Death paused and his jaw dropped a bit. "She doesn't want you to be death! If I can't keep my end of our deal, you return to mortality. Dalphana knows this, and she is exploiting it. It isn't your wife's soul she wants, it's yours." Death's eyes retreated into his face in deep thought.
"Dalphana has found a way to contact vision!" Death said.
"Vision?" Yun asked, trying to search for whatever it was Death was looking for before.
"The demi-god of prophecy."Death logged the response away to continue, his hand suspended in the air, as if about to grasp the end of his train of thought. "Maybe Vision has joined Dalphana, but one way or another, Dalphana has some way to get prophicies, one that must concern a conflict between you and her. Maybe it is you that can destroy her."
"I thought you just did... Dalphana is still alive?" Yun asked.
"She has been dead for years Yun. It is difficult for a demi-god to destroy another demi-god, and between me and her, I can't exactly do much to her. It's really complicated, but the physical world just doesn't seem to like us trying to kill one another, it doesn't work. I could easily destory her if it weren't for that, but no other demi-god can even equal her power. Oh! maybe, you and her share the ability to absorb the power of a soul with yourself. That would make you able to get as strong as her, and stronger. Let's research it, but later. Life should be coming soon." Death said and returned to looking at the cieling, and with such intensity, it seemed he could lift the roof up.
"So... what is going to happen if life doesn't show up?" Yun asked, gettting a bit bored.
"She won't come back to life, but you will remain a demi-god of death. I can only fail my end of the deal by neglecting to do something I need to in order to bring her back. I have done no such thing, but Life's responsibility I cannot be accounted for." Death said, slightly angering Yun.
"I want to know how much of a chance she has."
"Which 'she'? Your wife or Life?"
"Well... my wife."
"Pretty good, perhaps Life is busy. Just wait."
"I didn't become a demi-god to become patience." Yun quipped.
"Patience is not a demi-god..." Death chuckled.

part 5 cometh in good time.