THE INSPECTOR You’ll end up as a garden paver outside Matron Skull’s summer home.
THE INSPECTOR We need to find the First Corpse. The one who never rotted. If you raise her, she can un-write the law that lets the Guild tax death.
MATRON SKULL Kill the anomaly! Squeeze her into a paver!
A beat. Thunder. Matron Skull’s eye twitches.
Porry walks past the hanging dead. She whispers to them.
PORRY Mr. Higgins. Your wife said you never stood up for anything.
PORRY RO GHOUL – Coming soon to a necropolis near you.
MATRON SKULL Nothing. You saw nothing.