“A New Life.” Shadows Of Life Chapter 1
Jesse followed Marina to the strange spiral stairs only this time they stopped at floor 6
The room was as far as the eye could see and filled with doors on both sides of the wall as Marina sauntered down the hall Jesse looked around the flooring below them was clear and above them had the same swirling mist there were many doors down the corridor but marina stopped at number 66
“Here we are dearie, don’t let any of my darlings out,” Marina said as she lowered herself into an almost squatting position then slowly opened the door and caught what looked to be a little dragon cat only it was a skeleton but it was alive in an odd way
“Blasé how dare you try to escape.” Marina said as she picked up the dritten “Oh come on in dearie they don’t bite.” She said as she led Jesse into her office room it was a circle-shaped room with a desk to the left, and straight across was a bay window where more dritten's sat as marina went behind her desk she motioned for Jesse to sit
“Alright, dearie what was your living name?.” Marina said as she put on her reading glasses and held a folder
“It’s Jesse.”
“Well, Jesse I’m sorry to say but you need a reaper name the over-world can’t recognize you,” Marina said gently
“I thought Humans couldn’t see grim reapers,” Jesse asked
“Well, they can and can’t per se when you find something in the overworld that remedies you of your old self you become slightly visible, or when you find a meaning
Grim reapers have no purpose except to bring souls for the Grim Council to decide their fate.” Marina responded
“So the Grim Council wants you to collect this soul,” Marina said As she slid the file to Jesse
“How am I supposed to -oww,” Jesse said as he looked and saw that a dritten was clawing at his boots
“Morros! No, no we don't bite friends.” Marina said as she walked around the desk and picked up the dritten “Hey I know what your reaper name could be, Morros.” Marina said
“OK,? But how do I get back to the living?.” Morros asked
“Your scythe silly, if you look at the blade and imagine where you want to be teleports you. Then to get back do the same thing.” Marina said “Oh my it's getting late, if you want you can take the phone with you so you know which soul to take but right now I need to get you to your dorm chamber.” marina said ad she sat the dritten down on the cat tower by the window when morros and marina were in the corridor they walked down the hall to the elevator and went to floor seven. Floor seven was a wider hallway with doors Marina stopped at door 6 and opened the door
“Here you are dearie,” Marina said “Oh, and here's this if you need to contact me.” Marina fishes in her red trench coat and pulls out a black bracelet with an orb in the center “Thanks.” morros says as Marina shuts the door quietly morros walks over to the bed and lies down this is not how I saw my day going, it's okay they probably don't care that I'm gone anyway morros said as he grabbed the photo out of his cloak pocket well that's a surprise he thought well Marty won't have to worry about bartending tomorrow Morrow said to himself then grinned maybe being a grim reaper won't be as bad as I thought.