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[comeshonesty]

[ the view is one from the ground, skewed slightly and tilted, and it shows a gray sky and-- a figure. very slender, in a black suit, it's an older man, his face thin and lined, his pitch-black hair slicked back. there's a black cane with a silver handle hooked in the crook of his arm, and with a patient gesture, he adjusts one of his cufflinks,

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[makes_asteroids]

[He worked the ovens at Auschwitz. He has no trouble meeting Death's gaze. Hasn't since long before then.]

Glad to see someone taking this calmly.

[comeshonesty]

Yes, well, I've been around quite a long time.

[ his brows arch. ]

The cagelike atmosphere is.. tacky, but it's an interesting change from the usual, at least.

[makes_asteroids]

Those who see that are even more rare.

[comeshonesty]

There's very little that I don't see, young man. I should think you'd know that.

[makes_asteroids]

Do a headcount. How many don't see this as a trap?

[oh but smiling a little. Doesn't mind being lumped in with the younger ones really, since that means he's not supposed to know how to fix everything.]

[comeshonesty]

Quite a few. [ dryly: ] I'm not particularly fond of raising the dead, you know. People get notions. Which seems to have happened here.

[makes_asteroids]

So I've seen.

[With Dean and that entire night. What a mess.]

[comeshonesty]

Is that so?

[makes_asteroids]

Recently, here.

[And that's all he's saying publicly.]

And in my own world.

[comeshonesty]

[ it's apparently all he really needs to say, because after a moment, death hums out a thoughtful noise. ]

So you have. Not unexpected, I suppose.

[makes_asteroids]

No, and it's not something I can't say I don't understand.

Do you have any other name, like Didi does?

[Merely curious, names have become important to him.]

[comeshonesty]

I don't have any personal nicknames, if that's what you're asking. 'Death', in whatever language you prefer.

[makes_asteroids]

Probably best I stick to English, least I confuse others.

Besides you don't see the type I normally associate that title with.

[Which is a good thing.]

[comeshonesty]

I should think not. Indulging in petty cruelties would be pointless for someone like me.

[makes_asteroids]

It would seem to be beneath you.

[Death isn't always - or even mostly - the enemy to his thinking. Death is too often the only mercy some are ever shown.]

[comeshonesty]

You might say so. Humans are cruel enough to one another.