RE: [JMC_Blue_Dwarf] Annie - \"Drop dead Jed\" pt3

(OOC: If this is wrong, or doesn't work or you don't like it, then get rid of it, but it's leading into a side-post I'm planning for Lester shortly. Mods/GMs if you don't like the post, then it doesn't have to have happened.)
 
<Snip> Annie took that as a signal and allowed time to play on as expected. > She watched in slow motion as the laser turned his entire body into > dust.> > Jed Calvert was finally dead.
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Who: Um.. no... too terrified to tell you
When: No when. But also a minute or so after Jed died. But also not.
Where: No where, but also beside Jed's body.
 
JEDIDIAH CALVERT? The voice was like the sound of mausoleum doors slamming closed.
 
Jed opened his eyes. His first thought was: "why have ah still got eyes?" His second though was: "maybe I still got a mouth, an' a stomach for drinkin'?" A tall, dark figure loomed in his vision which was very faded around the edges. The world seemed grey and slightly unreal.
 
JEDIDIAH CALVERT? The deep voice that bored straight past the ears into the brain sounded slightly impatient.
 
"Who wants to know?"
 
COME WITH ME, the figure was slim, face shrouded in a dark hood. Jedidiah made out a long stick, like a staff in his hand, but then saw the curved blade at the top and realisation started to dawn.
 
"Wow, I'm dead. Right?"
 
YES. YOU WERE SHOT WITH A LASER THAT VAPOURISED YOUR BODY. Death extended a bony finger from his black robes and twirled the dust in the air. THIS USED TO BE YOUR FRONTAL LOBE.
 
"What happens now?"
 
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT HAPPENS NOW?
 
"Can't say ah ever gave it much thought," the spirt of Jed Calvert shrugged. "Do they still do that Viking afterlife?"
 
I COULDN'T SAY.
 
"Maybe I'll give that go," Jed grinned as he started to fade, "drinkin', hurling axes at ladies' pig-tails, drinkin', eatin', fightin', drinkin'. Sounds good to me."
 
ARE YOU A VIKING? ARE YOU DESCENDED FROM VIKINGS?
 
"Does it matter? They gonna check mah passport?"
 
I DOUBT IT.
 
"Well, be seein' yer," Jed saluted Death and faded completely from the world.
 
Death stiffened visibly, he drew back his hood and, although no expression can be seen on a skull the colour of pale ivory, he definitely glared at the person he saw.
 
YOU.
 
"Hello again," Annie smiled and bobbed a curtsy.
 
I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN ONE OF YOU WAS INVOLVED. Death took an hourglass from the depths of his robe and shook it at her. IT EXPLAINS WHY I WAS LATE. THE APPOINTMENT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE!
 
"I have a job to do. To make sure things happen right," Annie said curtly. She shouldn't have been afraid of the apparition before her, but at seven-foot tall he was still very intimidating.
 
I HAVE A JOB TO DO ALSO. A DUTY TO ENSURE THINGS HAPPEN ON TIME.
 
"Rubbish," Annie scoffed, "you're just a particulate anomaly, the regurgitation of millennia of backwards thinking caught in an eddy between imagination and reality."
 
NO NEED TO BE HURTFUL, Death said astounded. ANYWAY, I STILL HAVE WORK TO DO. He tucked Jed's now empty hour-glass into his robes, rifled round in its depths and produced another. This one was oddly shaped and came as a conjoined pair, like siamese twins. The glass bowls were twisted and distorted. The sand didn't flow from top to bottom either, but looped through channels between each other. Annie craned to read the name etched on the glass.
 
I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT TO KEEP, Death said gloomily, but then he turned his nasty grin on Annie: DON'T YOU HAVE SOME MEDDLING TO DO SOMEWHERE?
 
"I have all the time in the Universe," Annie said snootily, "several Universes actually."
 
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE TIMER ANNIE? YOU'RE ONLY HALF IMMORTAL YOU KNOW.
 
"Are you threatening me?"
 
NO, MERELY MAKING AN OBSERVATION. TAKE CARE, ANNIE. I IMAGINE I WILL BE SEEING YOU AGAIN IN THE FUTURE... OR THE PAST. AS I SAID, I HAVE AN APPOINTMENT, ONE WITHOUT YOUR FINGERMARKS ON IT.
 
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