Rebecca, on her first day of getting to her new work, she badly dislikes her Job as a mortuary Assistant but since she's a struggling person on a financial ruin she accepts a job offer that her Uncle recomended her for, she goes to the mortuary on her first day at 5:00 p.m the sun had already begin to set. She was also nervous as she ascends down from her Taxi, the driver who already knows her financial stability very well as a past friend he just leaves her alone not asking for a cost.
"I'm seriously feeling embarrassed", but I have no choice either. She sighs as she walks through the road on number twenth road down the lower Burke street she keeps walking down the streets as she reaches the ending point the mortuary was located in the midst of the forest something unusual settles in her stomach. It is located a few distance away from the town.
"Anyways...just few distance." That's just her excuse anyways.
She walks in the entrance and knocks twice
...she waits no answer she knocks again still no answer. She texts her uncle
Uncle, I'm standing at the doorstep of the mortuary as you said.
She waits as finally she sees the figure that comes to open the door from the window glass.
"I'm really sorry, I was afar since I couldn't hear you at all becca come in" he moves giving space for her to enter.
Rebecca smiles
Thank you Uncle, I really don't know what will I be doing if it weren't for you.
Probably I would be homeless by now...she thinks that to herself. As she enters.
The Mortuary was indeed a little big the corridor was bounded by two walls on either side with each rooms. Her uncle gestures for her to follow him.
Yeah, I know it, and for sure once you did a great job for a week the money will hit your account by a week.
Thank you so much Uncle I'm so grateful for your offer, but I'm inexperienced.
Her uncle walk towards the last room as he opens the door, rebbeca jumps slightly it was whole dead body on a stretcher in midst of the room.
"Oh my God!.."
You'll get used to it... Her uncle says nonchalantly walking to the table with computer.
I'll say what you should do tonight. Finsih it and I'll arrive by the morning.
Rebbeca nods. As she leans to see the lifeless body of a man it was scary seeing his skin being dried up and fed.
I done the reports with him, Now you should put him back on the cold storage room. Open the bay with the boy's name in this document and pull out the rack. Then move the cart over it.
Rebecca nods wearing her gloves before grabbing the pole of the stretcher she gets afraid to look down directly at the body instead she faces straight as he walks out pulling it with her in the corridor, the corridor is indeed a long time to reach the cold storage. She remembers her uncle David also asked her to bring the lifeless body of a women, as she pulls the body into the cold storage room she sees something is written on the wall.
"Burn the corpse of her, before the sunset if you don't you will die"
W...what? Who to burn? And...I? What?
She runs down the corridor to say that to her uncle.
Her uncle ignores he also says his old assistant was a prankster who use to be like that.
"But still it's indeed scary"...
"I told you to bring the corpse of the women becca"
She turns towards the cold storage room a shiver runs down her spine as her throat suddenly goes dry she feels like someone is watching her....maybe she's nervous cause this is a total weird job indeed.
She slowly walks through the corridor not looking at the wall as she fixes and brings the corpse of a woman.
Well.... uncle? What should I do now?
Her uncle turns from the computer as she instructs her
He gives her a clipboard.
"This is used to keep in tracts of the work you finished"
Rebecca nods as she gets the clipboard. The works were...
1.To register the mole or a scar in the corpse.
2. To bind up her mouth and eyes...
3. Remove the blood from the body.
4. To preserve the body with a cavity.
"Alright alright this is going to be harder than I thought ".
She looks at the woman for a moment before picking up the materials she notices a mole in the woman's left leg.
She registers it in the computer as her uncle says.
A ominous voice..."YOU'RE GOING TO DIE HERE "
She freezes in midst of typing.
Um- uncle...is that you?
What?
The voice?
Her uncle throws back his head and laughs.
You're really imagining things, if you don't really like being here I might apoint someone else....
No no no! It's alright... I'm just imagining... Shit... Rebecca continues to record the details in the computer.
Done....
She gets up to get the tools needed to bind up the corpse's mouth as she grabs the tools from a shelf a chemical liquid falls on the ground spilling in the floor she gasps and takes a quick step backward looking at her uncle her palm slaps on her chest.
Oh! My god!! A silent follows in the room. As her uncle begins to speak.
"Sometimes we get chemicals that haven't been stored properly, and it can make them pop like that just keep doing your thing. I'll get it" she turns towards the corpse slightly being conscious of her surrounding...the lifeless body was turned slightly. She damnit knows that very well. She walks towards the body and binds the mouyand eyes it was more than disturbing but she either have not choice maybe she's thinks to herself.
"Maybe I'm just imagining things".
As the work finishes her uncle asks her to repeat the same process for the next three or four more corpse in the cold storage.
"And, a important thing you have to finish that before dawn"
Rebecca nods. As her uncle leaves the mortuary she's all alone...she shifts uncomfortably looking over the long corridor at the distant room where she have to walk now and bring the next person. She swallows hard as she walks in. The lights flickers off.
"The hell....Hello?"
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