Passed Deadline

There were plenty of laws passed in the years following the Great Shift. One such law had been written in the hopes of trying to truly sort out who was who. If you registered the identity of who you were before the Shift and who you were now, and the person you know were never claimed their life within a certain time period, you were allowed to keep their possession and use them until such time as the person claimed their life. Many often didn’t do it.

Brian felt it was the right thing to do. He had been living in Janice’s apartment ever since. And the deadline for Janice to claim her life had just passed. That meant her designer clothes, fancy apartment, and vast wealth were now all legally his. Even her name if he wanted it! Despite the fact that he had been doing so for a while now, the idea that it was now all his legally felt very freeing. He could’ve never dreamed of living this type of life, yet now he was!