1 Head Death: YES?
2 Death of Insanely Overpowered Fireballs: LOOK, SIR. I COLLECTED SOMEONE! FROM AN INSANELY OVERPOWERED FIREBALL!
3 {beat}
4 Head Death: AND YOU'VE BEEN DEAD FOR...
4 Ghost: Over 400 years.
4 Head Death: MMMM. TIMELY WORK.

Which reminds me... it's annual performance review season at my work soon. Eek!

"And what have you achieved in the past year?"
"Erm... I didn't miss a single update on my webcomic, again."

Dang. I should ask for a raise.

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2024-04-17 Rerun commentary: I suppose in this universe it's possible that ghosts are mostly people who died and never got collected by a Death. They're just kind of hanging around in the waiting room, so to speak. Not that they necessarily have any unfinished business in the mortal realm.