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Chapter 2

Jessica sat there in her rented room, she was tired and her body screamed for sleep. Although she wasn't quite sure while though kitty's passing had been quite easy she had been accepting and quickly went into the next world, she had some charges refuse to believe that they were dead and had to spend days following them around trying to convince them. She lay down and closed her eyes waiting for the details of her next charge to be pushed under the door.

When she had first started she had rushed to the door and opened it expecting to see somebody draped in a shroud or something, but there was nothing ever on the other side. She knew of no others like her but she knew that they must exist it was just that it was forbidden for them to ever meet. She only ever met one and that was the reaper she took over from.

The ship was rocked as another canon ball hit, the ship had been badly damaged as was taking on water. She heard the captain screaming for everybody to abandon ship. Jessica scrambled out of cot which she had been clinging to. She waded through the rising water and headed towards her cabin door struggling to open it against the water. She heard the sounds of canons fire at the ship her to stumble as she tried to climb the stairs to the deck. It was night and she could barely see the corridor around her, all the candles bellow deck had been extinguished due to the attack so that the ship would not be accidentally set alight.

She finally managed to find her way to the main deck. To her surprise she noticed that a storm had started and that she was one of the few remaining on the ship and all but one life boat remaining. For a moment she just stood the holding onto the door frame as the wind and rain beat down upon her. She noticed a few sailors struggling vainly with the sails and manning the cannons. She looked out to the stormy sea and saw the rough outline of a ship; it was difficult for her make out any precise details except that she was pretty sure that it had black sails.

'Miss Johnson gets aboard the longboat' said the captain raining towards her grabbed her arm and yanked her towards it.

A cannon ball struck the mainsail making a terrible cracking sound; it lurched forwards splintering away from where it once stood falling towards the deck crushing everything in its path.

The captain dragged her towards the longboat was already in the water but still attached to the ship by rope. The captain tied a rope around her waste and told her to climb down. When she reached the boat she realised that she was no longer alone there was another woman sitting in the ship.

She undid the rope around her waist and glanced up at the captain who was cutting the rope to the longboat.

'Captain what are you doing?' she screamed up to him.

'You two misses get as far away from here as you can' he yelled back down at her

'Captain no! What about you and the others!'

'Don't worry about us Miss we don't intend on sinking!' he replied finishing cutting the rope causing the long boat to start drifting from the ship.

Another cannon ball hit the ship showering them in splinters and rubble.

'Miss Johnson grab an oar, you heard what the captain said we have to get out of here' She looked at the woman strangely she had seen this woman aboard before but she had never actually spoken to her, so how did she know her name?.

However she did as she was told and they both started to row away from the two battling ships.

And that was how she met Alice, four days later she had died from dehydration. There was a knocking at the door and a worn piece of paper being pushed underneath. She waited to see if she could hear any footsteps retreating but there were none. She slowly got up and walked towards the door bending down and walking back to were she was sitting.

This was the part she hated the most, the part where she opened the paper and the person named within fate was sealed. She unfolded it and glanced inside. She felt a wave of dread hit her, she recognised the name.

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