Vacation

In the before times, there were vacations.

Everyone took them – children, adults, bosses, employees…everyone. It was a standard thing for someone to go off to another part of the city or even the world and no one would bat an eye.

That was in the before times.

One of our members decided to take a ‘vacation’ toward the end of the last month. It wasn’t anything that should be suspicious. His family was still intact and they had been doing some covert assignments for us. So of course, he wanted a break. We tried to tell him it was a bad thing; that there was no where any of us could go without being found.

Life is not like the before times.

Since my return, this member has not been seen again, nor has his family. The word ‘vacation’ has suddenly taken on a dull pallor that we knew would come, just perhaps not so soon. It’s disturbing to me, it truly is, how far we have fallen from what we were.

We have reached the bottom and the top is too far to reach now.