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"Judge's dying."
Lyca couldn't shook that out of her head. It was engraved, sculpted and affixed inside her to the point that she couldn't stop thinking about it. Death. Death. Death. It played inside her in loop. Over and over. How could those five letter word be this powerful to the extent, it weakened her?
Last night, Lyca went around tailing Judge. After his accident, she couldn't help herself but to look after him. The vehicular crash shocked her, but the news of his death left her dumbfounded. It felt so sudden.
She watched her reflection on the mirror. Long curly black hair was flowing as she brushed it with her fingers. Pale skin, tired eyes and the dark shadows beneath them made her look weaker.
"So what? He's just a human," Sadako retorted. "Why the hell do you care?"
There's Sadako again with her smart mouth. She'd thought about that all the time. Why? Why did she cares so much?
Clouded with litter of thoughts, messy and chaotic, Lyca snapped back to reality when she heard a beep. After that, she saw fleeting red lights glittering in her wrist.
It was her watch.
Another call. Another client. Sino na naman kaya ang susunduin niya? A sick kid breathing harshly, begging for air... for life? Or an old man on his deathbed while his family crying... suffering as he about to leave them?
Dark gloomy sky, heavy rain about to fall, and air thick with humidity, that was the first thing Lyca noticed when she opened the door. She was standing near a busy road, packed with cars, vehicles squeezing side by side.
Isang malakas na busina mula sa sasakyan ang narinig niya. That caught her attention. Lyca veered around. Only meters away, standing on the pedestrian lane in the middle of the road, there's Sandra. Ngayon ay nakasalampak na ito sa sementadong daan. Mula sa kinatatayuan niya ay kita niya ang panginginig nito na tila takot na takot.
It was Sandra. Who she would fetch today.
The rain started pouring, at first it was some kind of a drizzle but it only took less than a minute before it became heavy drops of rain. The downpour was so heavy that she barely see what's going on but the only thing what's vivid in her eyes was... Judge.
Anong ginagawa niya rito?
Judge came closer to Sandra, he held and carried her on his arms. Nahagip ng tingin ni Lyca ang marahas na pagtaas-baba ng balikat ng bata. Siguro ay umiiyak pa ito nang todo. And probably, her time was ticking too. Lyca looked at her wrist watch. Fifteen minutes. Sandra has only less than half an hour before she suffocates herself and die.
