Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Because he has other worries right now

[murderacurry]

Who: Death and you
When: April 6th
Where: Everywhere seeing as he's sightseeing
What: The most unusual personification of death you will ever see.

You may have just been minding your own business same as always either shopping or working. But all of a sudden you hear a booming voice in your head as deep and echoing as a stone slab sliding shut in the deepest crypt in the bowels of the earth.

"WELL THIS IS TROUBLING. WE SEEM TO HAVE MANAGED TO MISPLACE OURSELVES, BINKY." The voice said however it was hard to tell if it was speaking to the person listening or to itself. Either way if one were to look around for the source they would not see anything. AT least until they would look right up overhead. Then they would see a white steed standing on thin air and on top of it rode a figure clad in a black robe with a hood.

Comments

[murderacurry]

"INDEED. SUCH PEOPLE ARE NECESSARY TO THE WORLD. JUST AS MUCH AS I AM." Death certainly didn't hate his job but he wasn't the type to enjoy the death of others. It was a duty only he could perform to keep things in balance and to prevent an invasion of the undead into the world.

"I AM. THEY ARE ONE OF THE FEW WHO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE TO SEE ME AT THE TIME OF THEIR DEPARTURE." That and they loved to summon him at inopportune moments like in the middle of a party.

"THERE ARE GUILDS THOUGH WIZARDS PREFER THE CASTE SYSTEM AS WELL AS THE UNSEEN UNIVERSITY. THERE THEY SHARPEN THEIR POWERS WHILE ALSO PLOTTING TO ADVANCE UP THE RANKS BY ELIMINATING THE PERSON ABOVE THEM."

[celestial_wizard]

Wait..wizards get to see Death himself? Oh oh, can they summon him in the middle of a Fairy Tail party?

Wait.. no. That'd be a terrible idea. Lucy would invite him properly instead. Except their next part would probably be a pool party and no one wants to see Death in speedos.

"By elimi... you mean they assassinate them?" What ever happened to good, clean, hard work and promotions by recognition of said hard work?

[murderacurry]

A normal invitation would be a refreshing change. Not that the ritual of Ashkente was known to Lucy and her friends so yanking him away at their whim wouldn't occur. And he would not give them the instructions for it anyway.

"YES. THE ONLY WAY TO CLIMB UP THEIR HIERARCHY IS TO FILL THE SHOES OF THOSE BEFORE YOU. EVEN IF YOU MUST EMPTY THEM FIRST."

[celestial_wizard]

That's all right, Lucy wouldn't want to use it anyway. She'd think it was too rude. "That seems a bit...excessive..." She shook her head. Then again, it might well be one of the more normal means of advancing through ranks in some guilds back home, so who was she to judge?

She glanced away from the specter to look at his horse, mulling the name over in her head again. Binky seemed so ... strange a name for a horse that he'd ride! "It's funny, I would have thought you would have a black horse to ride." That's how the saying goes anyway!