Cringe but free

Your sister did better. She wanted to become a singer so she hung around a cliche of sirens in high school. She could already carry a tune, but befriending them didn't hurt anything. Hell, she was the maid of honor at one of their weddings. Unfortunately for your sister she quit after a few years of low paying gigs and bad luck. Now she's back in college studying cyber security. You chat with her over the phone when you're not too busy. She says she's happy and looking into auditioning for the next musical the community will put on.

You wanted to help people. Badly. You were always fascinated with becoming a Paramedic or a Nurse. So you decided to job shadow a Paramedic for a day, and that's where you met your current boss.

There was a call that day. An older man thought he was having a heart attack. When the ambulance crew got there he wasn't breathing. While the Paramedics performed cpr a knock sounded on the front door. You went to answer since there wasn't anything else you could do. A man in a black suit greeted you when you opened the door. You couldn't remember the exact conversation you had, but it ended when he handed you a business card and disappeared. Unfortunately the patient was found to have passed shortly after the paramedics arrived at the scene. Saddening news, but not uncommon.

You called the number on the business card the next day, and was offered a job. For what you weren't sure, but you'd at least see what the responsibilities were. That was two years ago and you're happily working as an archivist under your boss. You work in the basement filing paperwork, but that's apparently close enough to garner changes. Honestly you suspected he was some kind of mage when he disappeared on you, but you never expected that he was Thanatos himself.

The changes are slow, but very noticeable. Whenever you reach for a file and your flesh turns transparent, showing your bones in all their glory before your skin becomes opaque again. How you can practically feel how close to death your grandfather is when you hug him. And the most damning of all; a man attempted to mug you one evening in an alley. Despite giving him your wallet, he shot you. Yet after huddling on the ground for what felt like hours, the bullet wound closed leaving you with a just a bloody shirt and mental trauma.