Dearest pretty reader.
Imagine this on a breezy night the moon turned red, Catherine Mara lost everything.
The board of directors "miss Mara, we won't be needing your service anymore.
The words were calm, professional Even almost gentle.....but they still cut deeper than they should have.
Katherine were sitting across the polished glass desk, her back straight, her fingers tightly clasped in her laps so no one would notice how much they trembled. "Three years" katherine said...Three years of sleepless nights, endless pressures, and all my silent sacrifices, all reduced to a single sentence that erased my existence in this company
"...may I ask why?" She tried asking, her voice steady despite the storm building inside of her. The woman across from her didn't even hesitate."you're no longer aligned with the company's direction." Aligned
All of a sudden the word echoed in Kathrine's mind, hollow and pointless. She had bent herself into someone unrecognizable just to fit into their world, and now they were telling her she didn't belong.
"I get what you are saying" she said quietly, even though she didn't.
There was nothing else to say.
Meanwhile, moments later she went outside the towering building, the glass doors shut behind her like her final goodbye.The cool night breeze hit her instantly, sharp and grounding, but something about it just felt ....off. it was too heavy. Too still. As if the whole world had stopped without telling her.
Katherine breathed out slowly, trying to maintain herself in,but her chest felt so tight, her thoughts scattered. Losing her job is supposed to be the worst part of her night.
Well, it wasn't.
Because when she looked up, she froze.
The moon_was red.
It wasn't faintly tinted, not even hidden behind any clouds,but fully, impossible crimson, glowing against the dark night sky like a silent warning.