Tw0 Rect0r Street

On Wednesday after I got back, when I left for work in the morning the building across the street was sealed off and swarming with cops. It turns out a woman who worked there had gone missing - she was seen going in for her shift, and never coming back out. For days no one knew where she was, but police were certain she was still inside, because this being the WTC-area, every entrance is covered with closed-circuit cameras. I thought about her a lot over the next few days - how if she was still alive, she must be praying to God that someone would just look harder, look again for her - and I felt like it was somehow my responsibility in particular, as a woman in the neighbourhood, as her neighbour overlooking the place she went missing.

Well, she was found, unfortunately not alive. Then came the CSI trucks, and the media vans, and the street is plastered with Crimestoppers posters, although the police know the murderer is a freight elevator operator who worked in the building.