If I must be honest,
I love the place where I work. Quiet, cold, dark in a perfect way, close, huge
and isolated. The white shiny tiles, which shine a little bit thank to the
unique neon light in the room, have always got me comforted as my iron trolley with
my autopsy tools. I can feel owner in my mortuary, I can be avenger and
arbiter. I’m the one that knows what to do and I’m the one that explain to the
others what they need to know. The people listen to me, the deceased respect
me. I can be quiet and I can work without problems. Also the salary is good.
That Tuesday I had
five cases to solve. Five people were died in a cruel way and the police
station asked for an accurate autopsy. That day my neon light was noisy in addition
to its usual unstable sparkling. I arrived to the mortuary when the dinner time
had already passed and I knew I should probably have worked until the next day.
That was not the first time I stayed during the night, the people never die in
the right day moment for legal doctors.
I got the first
document after had changed my dresses and I faced that it was a young lady, too
young. Twenty-five years old, brunette, pale skin. When I removed the white
sheet, besides seeing her delicious and died nakedness, I easily found eight cut
hurts on her body. One of these was under her left bosom, a bosom very big and
young. On the police record, there was written they had discovered her in a
blood lake with her crying boyfriend. There was also a knife near them. He had
denied, denied, denied.
It was not his fault.
And my neon light seemed to be annoyed for this, so it started to stagger more.
They were a perfect
couple, they had loved each other since more than one years. It was not him the
killer. He had just found her in that way. Who? Who was the murderer? He wanted to know this! My neon light was
getting angry.
That case was very simple, I had already understood why she was died. What I could do was
to add some important deatils, maybe something about drugs or alcool, sexual
illness, rape hurts, fighting hurts, semen. A dead body can speak better than
an alive mouth.
I saw her with my
personal sadness about that stupid tragedy. It should not have happened. In
front of her there was an entire life! She was young, too young! I had to work
hard, I had to found the truth for helping the police. My neon light seemed not
to be agreed with this.
I observed her hurts
after wearing my plastic gloves, I got the scalpel e I started to figure out
where I could begin my work. Why had she got all of this?
Then, suddenly, she
opened her eyes. She spread them totally out. Light blue, deep, vitreous. She
looked at me scared and angry at same time. I shivered, I froze. My neon light
was literally getting crazy, in a while it would be blown up.
“It was him! I raped
me… I reacted… he killed me to stop me… I need to go there… I need to meet him…
can I?”, she spoke with a guttural and ghostly voice, trying to stop her lips
going down. I was a salt sculpture, I didn’t reply.
She stood up, took my
scalpel and left, naked how she was, while I couldn’t do anything. She opened the door
and left. My neon light blew up with a big noise. I put my hands on my iron
trolley to avoid falling. The other deceased started to groan.