Story ideas: The Witness
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sickle_storiesProposed title: Soul Escape, The Witness, Witnessing, Last Moments, Last Rites
Above also possibly chapter titles.
Woman whose role it is to witness each and every death of her people, to sit at the bedside with the dying and hold the wake alone. The only one allowed to witness the soul’s escape from the body. This has had a terrible effect on her. Possibly started this at a young age, maybe because she was born of a dead woman or cried whilst passing the cemetery when a babe. Perhaps a word or training, but she is always alone. First official death-witness could be of the previous Witness, who gives her the only training she is to receive.
First line: “This was her sixth death. She did not remember her first, though all the others did. She remembered most vividly the second.”
Story thus opens on a wake, just after the death of one. Musing follows, some history.
Above also possibly chapter titles.
Woman whose role it is to witness each and every death of her people, to sit at the bedside with the dying and hold the wake alone. The only one allowed to witness the soul’s escape from the body. This has had a terrible effect on her. Possibly started this at a young age, maybe because she was born of a dead woman or cried whilst passing the cemetery when a babe. Perhaps a word or training, but she is always alone. First official death-witness could be of the previous Witness, who gives her the only training she is to receive.
First line: “This was her sixth death. She did not remember her first, though all the others did. She remembered most vividly the second.”
Story thus opens on a wake, just after the death of one. Musing follows, some history.
