[WP] You are an assassin that works within dreams, able to jump between them. Killing someone in their dream causes them to die in real life.

I sat myself down on the bench, facing the enclosure that for some reason held the same dog, replicated several times. My boss told me a young women by the name of Jane Smith would be making her way around the corner any second now but to be careful because she may have company with her. He once again reminded me that "you only kill the target and spare anyone else that may be in the dream". Like he had to remind me of that again. Mike was a nice guy, but god damn was he repetitive.

I looked to my side and picked up the tattered piece of card that lay next to me. On it was an in depth synopsis of Jane Smith. Her fears, her loves, her family members or friends, her weaknesses and all the necessary information to make her death the most traumatic it could be. Cruel, I know but that's just the way we worked. I looked at the watch on my wrist and saw the black and glow in the dark green handles freaking out, telling me it was 7:30 one second and 2:15 the next.

Right on time, Jane walked around the corner with, as I was warned, another person. Jane was tall, unnaturally tall for a 325 year old. She stood at the grand height of 6 foot 5'. Her brown hair covered most of her face at the moment and as she walked her red beanie flopped up and down. The person I was warned about I assumed was her husband as the walked hand in hand. He was the smaller of the two, having to crook his neck up wards to look at her. He wasn't going to be much of a threat, he couldn't do much anyway.

You see, when people are having dreams, the people they are with are not at all like the people they are in real life. Humans are forgetful and miss out details that are easily forgettable. Besides that, unless these two people were having the same dream at the same time they can't do anything to their surroundings and it's highly unlikely they're having the same dream right now.

Jane flinched when she turned the corner and saw me, but quickly averted her eyes and seemed to forget I was even there. This should be easy then, I thought. I picked up the knife situated on the bench and began walking, swaying it by my side as I walked.

The couple seemed completely oblivious to the fact that a murderer was walking their in the middle of a zoo. They instead continued walking, laughing and joking at the elephant sized lion with the head of a meerkat and the Egyptian god Anubis that seemed to be dueling it out in the pen next to them.

I stepped slowly forward, keeping my guard up. This had never happened before, usually when someone sees me they'll run in the opposite direction. Maybe I'll have an easy night then?

After a couple of seconds of walking and my knife almost slipping out of my hands because of the sweat pool that had built up there, Jane and I were face to face. Jane still had the largest smile on her face and it was though I paused her conversation, as her husband seemed to be mid sentence. I began my spiel

"Hello Jane. Tonight is the night yo-"

I was stopped mid sentence and watched as Jane's ecstatic expression turned to the most menacing face i've ever seen, dream world or real world.

"No Ben, no it isn't."

What? How did this girl know my name? I've never met her before. What the hell is going on?

I was met instantly after by a large blow to the head. I woke up god knows how long after in what seemed like the office of the zoo and I could see out the window the fish...men that roamed around.

"Tell us everything you know" Jane demanded.

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