Sometimes, it’s so quick. Sometimes, I have to be there in a flash, with no time to think about it. I have to go and collect them or they’ll get lost and have nowhere to go, and that would just be horrible. Of course, there are those that see me as horrible-as a monster, a fiend…. and so many of those stupid movies…a man in a black cloak with a scythe…. yeah, that’s me. Yeah right.
Actually, I’m a woman, with long red hair and brown eyes, and I wear whatever I want, and I certainly don’t have a scythe. What a silly idea! Where on earth did they get that one from? Not to mention the image of a rotten skeleton! They just get funnier.
Well, it’s not to say that I don’t feel bad sometimes, but it’s the natural cycle, and I’m kind to everyone. This time, this night, was one of the harder ones. It was a seventeen-year-old boy, called Lukas, and he had taken an overdose. He didn’t feel much pain-he’d been unconscious for most if it. I stood in his bedroom where he had just been found. A woman, his mother, was sobbing…well, this would be hard. I thought that this would be a horrible case-I mean, a young boy. What happened shocked me to the core.
He came toward me, looking surprisingly relaxed. He caught on quickly that I was…well, that I was me.
‘Hey, Lukas…’ I started.
‘So, you really exist then? And you’re not some idiotic looking thing with your big sharp thing?’ he replied.
I couldn’t help but laugh.
‘I really don’t remember anyone catching on that quick, and…well…you’re dead…aren’t you, like, sad?’
‘Meh…. I was on my way out. A bloody junkie! I was unhappy, anyway.’
‘What? You’re seventeen! You had your whole life to go! How can you say that?’
‘Well…. it’s kinda late to start thinking about that now, isn’t it?’
He made me think of another case many years ago, when it had been a young girl that I had to collect, and she was unhappy with her life…she had taken her own life. I really hate when that happens. I mean, such a lovely girl…hanging herself. It’s just the most horrible thing. I had convinced her that she had a good life, and she was well loved. She got the chance to go back, if she did a mission that I gave to her. She had to go and work with a little girl who was desperately unhappy. She had to give her a friend, a reason to keep going. And she did. It’s a complicated system, and it doesn’t work all the time.
It might work now, though, if I can convince Lukas to go back…
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