hadriel | Video 4 - George's room

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Video 4 - George's room

[the video opens on George, sitting on the edge of her bed with her legs crossed. she looks curious, but also a little sheepish as what she's about to ask is . . . personal.

no, she's not asking for flirting advice again.

that was one time.

stop looking at her like that.

no, this time what she's asking is even weirder]

So, uh, I was kind of wondering. How many people here died before they came here? And how many are now immortal?

I was just. Wanting to know?

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I don't know what those are. They sound nasty, though.

They are.
Ugly as hell, too.
They cause accidental deaths.
I had to reap people who died of accidents, murders, and suicides.

Charming. Sounds like your job isn't exactly a pleasant one. Did you die or does one born as a reaper?

I died.
Since I filled the other Reaper's quota, I got stuck with their job.
Did I mention I was only 18 at the time?

So you picked up where they left. That's interesting. Eighteen doesn't sound too bad. It definitely could be worse.

Interesting is one word for it. I called it "annoying."
It could, but I had to lie about my age to get a decent job.

I imagine that undead would have to do more lying than that.

Yeah.
There was my name, of course.
And my family.

Do you live among humans or other reapers?

I had a roommate.
Another Reaper. Her name was Daisy.
And she was an actress.

[too bad it's impossible to eye-roll via text 'cause she totally would]

An actress? Now that's a useful profession. But this means you weren't alone. You had your kind with you.

Yeah, but what would she do if she got famous?
Eventually, someone would notice that she never aged.
Daisy was annoying.
Mason was okay, though.

Was she 18 too? If yes then that makes things easier for her to fake it and adjust. How long you've been like this?

Nope. Early thirties, maybe?
I didn't ask. [because I didn't care goes unsent]
Almost a full year.
I think.
Time is screwy here.

[A year. That explains a lot. From Edgar's point of view she things aren't too bad for her. It could definitely be worse and it's like she doesn't realize just how much. But she's young, really young. It had taken decades -- almost a century for Edgar to learn how to be comfortable with himself.

It's no wonder she's confused and lost. That he can be sympathetic towards. ]

Your job doesn't sound pleasant one. But you seem to have family and community around you and that's important. You aren't alone and you have a purpose. It's something.

[things definitely could be far worse for her. she could be further along in years, trapped watching her family age and die from afar and be helpless to do anything about it.

but becoming a Reaper was tough. not only was she not given any time to mourn herself and adjust to her new circumstances, she was expected to do the job pretty much immediately after death. which meant confronting even more death with some serious unresolved issues about death in general]

I guess.
Betty, one of the other Reapers? She was my friend.
But now she's gone.
[there's a long pause, followed by]
I miss her.

do you reap other reapers?

No.
Betty had been a Reaper for something like eighty years.
And I think she just got tired of waiting for that last job.
So she hitched a ride on someone else's afterlife.
Never heard from her since.

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