One minute by your side, the next, gone forever...

The Vanished, as they were called, trapped english souls that walk along the crumbling sidewalks of Portobello Road.  They were not dead, not alive, simply stuck in a disconnected dimension from humans. Untraceable and irretrievable.

Technically, they were all human once, before being taken into the Internal Ether of Indecision, to stay on Earth, to watch but never to be seen by the living. Left behind, these beings were, in the shuffle of the bustling crowds. Those who stopped to tie their shoe, who couldn't find their parents, just disappeared.