Both Mandy and Grim found themselves waiting for the gnome to recover for quite some time. With their arms folded, and a scowl on their faces, they waited...
...and waited...
...and waited.
Until...
Psssssssssssh...
"Uhh...Grim?" piped up Mandy, her brow raised at the immortal embodiment of death itself in question. He turned his head with a similar expression,
"Yes Mandy?" he inquired, for a simple point at a steady stream of grey sand flowing out of his robes to be his only answer. Grim gasped and scrambled to rummage through his robes, eventually procuring a large case; the cause of the little leak, if the single sandy hole in it was anything to go off of.
As he flung it open, it was a sight to behold. It was collection of dozens of different hourglasses, each with different amounts of sand, both in their tops and their bottoms. Even stranger yet, were the labels placed upon each. Everyone from Alex Mercer to Zinnia was found inside, though the one labeled "Max Caulfield" was shattered, and all the sand once stored inside it, now vanished. Even the amount that had leaked. Grim was visibly beginning to panic,
"This doesn't bode well..." Mandy snuck a peek into the case, before looking back up at Grim,
"Some girl died, so what? she commented, oblivious to what the shattered hourglass signified. Grim snapped at her,
"Ya don't understand! People's hourglasses aren't supposed ta just explode like dis! Sometin' freaky's goin' down!"
Bark! Bark! Grim beamed at the sound of his trusty new companion. Surely, of all creatures, a wolf would be able to find a body the quickest,
"Take us to her, boy! We got a case ta solve!" Grim bellowed bravely, following behind Hati as Mandy rolled her eyes and followed suit.
Upon arriving at the scene of the crime, the two of them were surprised to see the body had already garnered so much attention.
Or that it was even a
crime scene to begin with.
"Oh. She was murdered. Case closed; let's go reap her soul." Mandy said, strangely swift to dismiss the mystery as she pushed past the crowd to stand face-to-face with the body. Grim grunted, seamlessly weaving through the crowd to come stand beside his friend-master at the foot of scene,
"It ain't dat easy, girl, a murder only empties de victim's hourglass, it doesn't shatter it! Humph...anyway..." Grim snapped his fingers, and a scroll appeared and unfurled before him,
"Hmm, let's see here...ah!" he mumbled, running his bony finger down a list of M names before stopping on Max's,
"De late Max Caulfield, age eighteen, on de brink of adulthood. A pity ta be taken so early in life, but, haha~..." Grim released something of a gleeful chuckle; bending down to shut her eyes,
"My job's my job!"
After another fit of dark laughter, Mandy chimed in, looking a little impatient,
"Ahem." Grim spun his head back around to lock eyes with Mandy's impatient glare, before cracking a nervous smile,
"O-Oh, yes, her soul, right!" he stuttered, clearing his throat soon after and conjuring up a swirling green portal over the corpse's belly and reaching inside. He seemed pretty confident at first, but soon started to struggle the longer he dug around. Mandy's patience was certainly being tested,
"Well? Where is it?" she inquired, tapping her foot against the ground, and her fingers against her arm. Grim didn't respond for some time, before panicking again,
"I don't know; she's empty!"
Psssssssssssh...
Grey sand spilled out of the Reaper's robes again, as if to taunt him this time, as he sat there in complete confusion.
"You're kidding, right?" Grim merely responded with a death glare so powerful, that only Death itself could muster one. For once, Mandy looked visibly shaken by the expression. Albeit, not by much, it was still a feat to get Mandy to emote at all.
Just what the hell was going on here?
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