Death needs humanity as much as humanity needs her, that's why at the end of the Great Dying she decided to help the last survivors herself.

It's been over a decade since the appearance of Disease X, a deadly prion hidden in the common cold virus, a piece of bad news wrapped up in even worse news. Civilization fell in a few years, decision makers started pointing fingers followed by guns, someone had the finger over the button, got trigger happy launched and rained death and darkness from above; it was the busiest days for the Reaper.

Some survivors began to receive instructions in dreams to start rebuilding civilization, it was explained to them that the pathogen had disappeared with the nuclear firestorm, now they could repopulate the earth, helped by a supernatural force that was always with them, they called it Vida.

Vida was in charge of making them survive accidents that must have killed them, guiding them to better places and ensuring that they had provisions keeping the population stable, but she never spoke to them directly, her messengers, dream and delirium always spoke for her.

Since the appearance of Vida, people began to live longer and die peacefully, so they began to suspect that Vida also controlled death.

They began to prepare someone to investigate, instructing him to negotiate face to face with Vida after he died, he was old and shouldn't have problems getting an answer, but this wasn't needed as they confirmed it when their subject lived longer than all those who had instructed him, so in a way the lack of answer was an answer.

Little by little the population rose and civilization recovered, 65 years have passed since the appearance of Vida and there are rumors that there are landline phones in Boston again and that Guadalajara has a new makeshift grid. Vida sighed and sharpened her scythe, returning to her old job but always taking care of the society that she helped create.

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