seth

The call came in at 3 am. I had startled awake only seconds before from an unremembered dream. Startled awake as his spirit brushed by me in it's passing from this world, leaving me gazing in mute shock at the darkened ceiling. In the time it took
my mother to walk down the hall from his room (where the vacant shell lay, still connected to the now meaningless tubes) he had already wordlessly announced her message.