The Cranial Ferrywoman
From the Ossuary Transit Authority Training Codex, Edition 7 (Redacted)
Before cranial drift was regulated, souls were known to float loose from their skulls during transit between hemispheres.
The Ferrywoman was never officially assigned. She arrived at Platform 13, Sector Maxilla, during a mid-cycle audit. She brought no credentials, no badge, no socket-form. Only a satchel full of jawbone tokens and a sternum whistle made from translucent ivory.
“They’ve begun drifting laterally,” she said. “It’s not safe for the face to sleep anymore.”
Her job was to escort the unanchored. She sat at the front of every cranial vessel, humming subsonic glyphs through the occipital veil. Passengers wept in their sleep but arrived intact. Some forgot their surnames. One awoke with two tong... See more