The burning embers of the fire are one of the few things that keep me sane. A home was burning with a raging fire and as I sat on the lamppost watching the firemen try to put it out I almost forgot about my job. The ambulance left a few minutes ago and I thought I could at least take a slight break. I've been up all night doing the same boring thing over and over. Get summoned to a hospital or home, judge a kids or adults life give them there last wish, send them through the gates of heaven or hell or the in-between then get new summons and leave. This was about my 18th death count tonight. 20 death counts then I'm done for the night. I've definitely had better times. I picked up my scythe and threw on my hood, it was hard being a reaper especially one of my standards. The kid I was supposed to finish was in the hospital going through countless tests and ways to try and save him. But no one could escape death or a reaper everyone dies eventually and that's that. Those people that say they saw their body in a near death experience or "heard a voice". Yeah that's just one of the reapers slacking off and trying to scare the person that's going to die soon. Even the people that did truly escape a reapers grasp always, when they wake up always get some sort of disease and a death mark. Us reapers only leave death marks on those few that can escape a reaper and soon after they die they become reapers themselves because they proved they can get out of tight situations and problems. It wasn't like that for me I wasn't born dead and I never escaped a reaper, well kind of. I was actually supposed to die when I was born and my late grandfather was assigned the mission to judge me. He couldn't do it and instead gave his whole existence to save my life. I was cursed to become a reaper at night, it had its perks though because since I'm half dead technically I never become tired and I can explore the world all night if I wanted. Also I have what's called a death eye which means I can see who's going to die and I can see other reapers or ghosts. Only a very small few poses a death eye and I've only heard of one other reaper who is kind of like me but because a reaper must never reveal their name I don't know who it is. We also have a fact of ranks.