Crosswalk

Esther is a gatekeeper. An archangel tasked, alongside her mother, with the divine duty of guiding dead souls to their correct place in the afterlife as well as guarding the gates of heaven. An enchanted index called the schedule lists off the information and death date of every human in existence. It also instructs them of what their duty is, and where to send each soul.

Of course, the most important part to Esther is that it states there is no possible way out of the gatekeeper's realms, the small worlds that house her kind. No gatekeeper has ever escaped, and no gatekeeper will ever escape-or so the index says.

Death never bothered Esther before, because it was just part of her duty. When she finds herself mysteriously transported to the human world after cursing her fate, however, and meets a young boy scheduled to die in three weeks, she starts to see life and death in a different light.

[[this short story is meant to go alongside a webcomic, which I will begin producing at it's completion]]