I sat there for a long while before the crying began, resonating up from beneath the creaky floorboards - and I smiled, a toothy grin slowly spreading across my face... because I knew my work was only just beginning.
Around the world, there are no reports of anyone disappearing or suddenly ascending while plenty of the devout and desperate commit suicide by the thousands.
I noticed too late that the crafts previous occupant, long dead, was wearing the same heirloom necklace I was, hidden beneath his shirt, between his ribs.
But as she looked up into his beautiful kind eyes, she knew she’d still have to burn him alive and watch his house collapse into flames, just like all the others hiding in plain sight.
His screen glowed, his own terrified face staring back as a bloody hand—his own damned hand—reached out, and yanked him into the black void beyond madness and beyond the screen.
Now I know many are worried about the blood tests but I guarantee some of you that don't even look like it will pass the percentage threshold to be considered people.