Soul Room

The doctor pulled the needles out of the patient one by one. John’s favorite classical music played from the overhead speakers. Bright lights shown to give the client in the soul room as much exposure as possible. John removed the final needle from patient’s back. The syringe it fed into was filled with pure white liquid, the substance of souls.

The fluid was extracted from the nearly dead human body. John looked at the patients back and it was pocked from the punctures of medical devices. His job was to slowly extract the essence of a person right as they were passing the plane from life and death. John’s own soul removal had been as if was being boiled alive and stabbed to death. The removal process consisted of pulling away everything it meant to be human at an atomic level. The small breaks ripped apart bonds at this low level.

The liquid result was then injected into an ethereal husk. This allowed a human to enter the afterlife. The transfer to the new form was even worse than the removal process. Without pain, there was no future.