Who: Iris-as-Death What: Death. Where: Everywhere in the DC door When: Right now Warnings/Rating: Death, a bit of madness, and the world's longest run-on sentence.
Midnight hit and Iris was suddenly nowhere she should be, the world expanding around her, shrinking, out and in at the very same time, and with the movement and motion came a vast muttering knowledge of all the souls lined up on the earth's surface, going about their business of living and dying and she could feel the snowflake pinpricks of new lives winking into existence like stars along her skin, each one as welcome as the last as the ice spread warmth through her consciousness, but it didn't stop at just the births, and it didn't stop expanding either, growing more and more and farther, past the blocks and streets, past the city and the state, over international lines, and no, NO, that was too much, too many minds and lives, and there were too many and too much, more than she could hold, far more, she couldn't keep holding onto all of them, not when some were so close to letting go, so she had to let them go, because she couldn't be there and here and everywhere all at once, no one could do that, how did she do this without it pulling and twisting and pulling and stretching and making her so thin and gossamer fine that she simply frayed apart, but if she frayed, then no one would be held, they would all be let go, and it was her responsibility, she couldn't let them go, couldn't let them die, couldn't carry all of them on to the next place, she just couldn't, but they were slipping, it was too much, she had to let go, just a little, just a few, she had to be responsible for everyone, but just a few would be alright, wouldn't they, no one would think to come after her if she couldn't keep holding on, just a few across the world, a few more than who were supposed to go in that moment, just a few.
Iris cried as they died. The people that were too old, too ill to keep hanging on. They died, and the world shivered, and she felt every life pass. Thoughts. Memories. People.