Ecstasy

Chapter 10
The dark clouds rumbled overhead as the bolts of lightning streaked through the mass of grey cloud in the sky. She sat deadly still her unchanging stare locked on the cold blackness of the water below her. Detaching her mind from everything she’d heard, seen and written about the passenger over the last four months that he’d been hers. Now he had only a few minutes left on this world, only a few minutes left to complete a lifetime’s worth of living. Cries into the night that she could hear in graphic detail began to plague her mind as she slowly began to forget about him. Just like all the others a victim of their greed from human culls. By now the tally of lives would be past the millions, centuries of unexplained deaths and nobody connected any of them.
“Escorts to the next world for the passengers of time.” The phrase never left her thoughts day in day out as she watched over the unsuspecting. She was alone in a world she knew nothing about, and yet too much for her liking. She was one of many and yet one of so few. The wind picked up as she took a deep breath in, the cutting and tearing within herself playing with her mind. She’d let go as always but she could still feel their pain especially when they’d not deserved their fate. Sometimes she’d wished she could stop it but arguments where in vain, and punishments for trying were severe, even for an Escort.
“FUCK!!!!!!!!!” She cringed as she heard his distant screams as they did their work, fear filled her body making her shake violently until a sudden crack snapped into her brain and the cries where gone. It had been finished and that was that, she no longer had any attachment to the passenger what so ever and it was on to the next one without a second thought.

The people below her on the street continued to walk not even hearing his distant cries. Nobody except them ever heard the cries of the forgotten and nobody but them cared for those who didn’t make it over. Many on them she cared for after their parting, some of which couldn’t cross over because of some unfinished business and some simply because they did not wish to. Either way she cared for them and treated them with the respect and dignity they deserved in their wake. So many Escorts did what she did, just because of the constant guilt that they were responsible for their brutal ending.

Once she’d regained her composure and all thoughts where resolved she stood up and walked back towards the internal steps of the building. As she reached for the door handle a strange pain swept over her body causing to double up and fall to her knees. It was something so unbelievably quick but there all the same, someone else had seen it. Only once in her life time she’d had the same feeling and even then it hadn’t been that strong but dangerous all the same. She was quick to her feet as she bolted down the stairs almost floating as she glided effortlessly down the three-story building. This would have to be found and delt with before it got further and her life and other were in danger. It scared her that it could have been so strong and yet unidentifiable because of its distortion. Who ever it was who had seen what she had, was strong indeed a true threat to her kind, even if they didn’t know it yet.

Once she was out in the street she crossed the road with ease, her long black attire flowing behind her as she continued to run towards the ferry. This would prove hard and she knew it for anybody who could bring an Escort to her knees was someone to be feared and treated with extreme caution. Even the most experienced Escort would be in fits of hysterics over a display like she’d just felt. However she was on her own and like any other problems that came to an escort like herself she had to sort them out herself unless it was something to effect the whole society and then it had to be shared.

TBC.........