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Chapter 5 - Classification

The angel started singing. It was a sweet song and from the roof carriages without any driver ir horses descended. They were camouflaged as their colors changed from starry sky to white marble.

All the people, who were standing on the opposite side looked confused.

Then the angel spoke,"people who died of natural causes at age 30 and above"

About half the people in our crowd turned a bright shade of yellow. A carriage in front of us turned yellow too.

The people involuntarily got into the carriage their expressions unredeable. They then flew towards the starry sky.

"People who died of unnatural causes of age 30 and above"

Those people had their clothes turned black and rode away in a black carriage.

The crowd had now decreased to less than half of what had been there. As I looked around, I saw young faces who like me were wondering how they would be classified.

"all people who died of natural causes below 30"

Only a handful turned green and they also similarly exited

"All people dying of unnatural causes below 30"

My dress turned blue. And so did a few others. We looked at each other and we developed some form of understanding. We all knew the pain of our life being taken away at a young age.

But there were still some people left. They almost looked afraid. My feet started moving to the blue carriage which had blue seats, blue floor. My companions came in and as the number of people increased, the carriage expanded. I looked outside I had got the window seat.

The people who still remained, only 20 or so, with bright red clothes looked here and there wondering whether the angel was going to send them in the some other coach.

But I knew that was not going to happen. Because the angel then said ,"this may be painful but you !all deserve it "

As my carriage rode away I looked with horror as the people donned in red burst into flames and the white marble hall was engulfed in smoke and screams...

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