Widow's Watchers
Grief is the only qualification. The cowl is the only uniform. The Widow's Watchers are not recruited; they are made, shaped by the loss of someone they loved to the slow death that waits inside Widow's Park.
They are the cowled and largely unrecognizable men and women who maintain a constant vigil over Skatown's quarantine park, where the diseased are sent to die. Their primary duty is grim: ensure that no one sent into Widow's Park leaves. When the sick refuse to go voluntarily, the Watchers are the ones who drag them there. Most serve for a one-year mourning period, standing watch over the place that took someone from them, then return to ordinary life carrying whatever the year left behind.
Some stay longer. The long-term Watchers take on an expanded role that puzzles even their own membership. Mother and Father on the Family Council have assigned them to conduct day-to-day surveillance of the Thrill Kill population, documenting activities and reporting back. The reason for this interest has never been explained. The Watchers follow orders because grief has made them compliant, not because the orders make sense.
From beneath their cowls, the Widow's Watchers watch the dying and the mad in equal measure, serving a council that never explains what it wants to know or why. The mourning period ends for most. For some, the vigil simply becomes a life.
They are the cowled and largely unrecognizable men and women who maintain a constant vigil over Skatown's quarantine park, where the diseased are sent to die. Their primary duty is grim: ensure that no one sent into Widow's Park leaves. When the sick refuse to go voluntarily, the Watchers are the ones who drag them there. Most serve for a one-year mourning period, standing watch over the place that took someone from them, then return to ordinary life carrying whatever the year left behind.
Some stay longer. The long-term Watchers take on an expanded role that puzzles even their own membership. Mother and Father on the Family Council have assigned them to conduct day-to-day surveillance of the Thrill Kill population, documenting activities and reporting back. The reason for this interest has never been explained. The Watchers follow orders because grief has made them compliant, not because the orders make sense.
From beneath their cowls, the Widow's Watchers watch the dying and the mad in equal measure, serving a council that never explains what it wants to know or why. The mourning period ends for most. For some, the vigil simply becomes a life.
