Never To Be Found

<b>She'll help anyone in need. But did she just save a killer?</b><br /><br />There is a chilling phenomenon in Japan known as <i>Johatsu</i> - people who vanish voluntarily from their lives. It's said 100,000 people per year are <i>Johatsu,</i> and an entire industry has sprung up to support those who choose to.<br /><br />Life is hard. For some people, it's just too much.<br /><br />That's what I thought when I brought the concept to England. People will disappear anyway. What if I could help them? So I pack their belongings discreetly, create new identities, forge documents, give directions to the cities and towns where the 'night-mover' can live anonymously.<br /><br />It's just a business. I never saw it as a shameful act. I've helped people flee from abusive relationships, from work pressure, from debt, from unfulfilled lives. People in need.<br /><br />I consider what I do to be honourable.<br />Until now that is.<br /><br />Because I've just learned that I'm not absent of responsibility. That I am capable of doing a terrible thing.<br />That it's not just a business.<br /><br />I helped somebody flee from a crime. From the police.<br /><br />I evaporated a murderer.<br /><br />And if I don't find him, I can't live with what he might do next.