"You know, I've always prided myself on being an impartial and unbiased man. Perhaps that is why, even from a young age, I've always admired the idea of death." The dangling man began to struggle to get free, sending him back and forth through the midnight air, like a human pendulum. The piece of cloth that held in his mouth by a strand of duct tape did its job in muffling his screams, not that they would have been heard from that height anyway. "Death is color blind. Death does not see skin color, it does not hear what language you speak. Death does not care where you come from or what your role is in society." I chuckled lightly as I continued.

"The truth of the matter is that death finds everyone eventually. What happens here tonight doesn't really matter. Death will eventually find you no matter what. But who am I to say when death should take you? I realize of course that it isn't up to me to choose. That is why I will leave it up to fate." The man's eyes gleamed with terror and the light of their glow cut through the darkness like a freshly sharpened blade. I pulled out a disposable cell phone and waved it in my hand while I talked.

"I have a little timer set up here. When it goes off, it will trigger a spark that will ignite the rope, causing it to snap. I'm going to call the cops. The timer is set for five minutes. It's time for fate to judge you. As soon as I hang up, I will start the timer. If this city's finest fail to get here in time... well, then death has made the decision to come for you, now hasn't it?" I made the call and blew him one last kiss before snapping the burner phone in half and tossing it off the other end of the roof.

I walked rather calmly down the building stairs, slipping off my mask and shoving it into a knapsack I had stashed earlier taped to the back end of the stairs between the eleventh and twelfth floor. I stopped for a minute, taking a moment to slip into a different shirt and different pants, then slipped my other clothes back away. I made my way into the gathering crowd as they began to notice the dangling man. I hid among them, waited with bated breath to see what path death would take today.