The room plunged into darkness. When the emergency red lights kicked in, the elderly man on the table was sitting up. His jaw hung at an impossible angle, and his eyes had been replaced by swirling, oily voids. He raised a finger, pointing not at her, but at the incinerator.

The fluorescent lights of the River Fields Mortuary hummed at a frequency that felt like a needle pressing into Rebecca’s skull. She had taken this apprenticeship to face her demons, but tonight, the demons were literal.

Then, she heard it—a voice coming from her own throat, but not her own words.

"I am the rot in the floorboards, Rebecca. I am the shadow in your mother's eyes."

She peeled back the sheet on the gurney. Nothing. She checked the woman in cold storage. Nothing.

"Just another night, Becky," she whispered, her breath hitching.

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