Day 1,268

There's a reason why nobody raises the dead any more, not since the olden days when news of a death spread much slower. It was easier to call a false alarm back then, back before morticians and coroner's reports and morgue's holding the body until the funeral directors arrived.

There just isn't the time nor the space to bring a body back nowadays, much less find an unnamed infant to sacrifice in their place. Missing people are noticed a lot quicker, infants are named as soon as they are born and global media makes their disappearances last for months instead of days.

It used to be so easy to blame it on wolves or fairies or anything inhuman rather than admitting to raising the dead. I mean, it was still illegal but common enough that nobody dared to call out a "false alarm" as anything other than a little odd.

It just can't be done now... not without getting caught at least. Infanticide is somehow worse now than it used to be. Is it because they have names now? Naming something makes it so much harder to kill, makes them seem more like people and less like little animals whose souls can be torn apart to give life to an established person.