the 002nd. || voice

[pike]

[ Much like Nigel's first post, there is only silence when the device first clicks on. Eventually, though, the young man on the other end of the connection clears his throat. His tone is politely curious. ]

I've been told that the dead do not stay dead here and in ways much more involved than the occasional curse. Which leaves me wondering, City: is there no need for undertakers here?

[ There's a pause and then Nigel adds: ]  I had hoped to make myself useful.

Comments

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Backdoor way to learn about it. Anatomists haven't been coffin chasers since the seventeenth century.

[pike]

I wasn't really allowed through the font door.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Your school doesn't offer biology?

[pike]

Literature. Latin. History. Theology. [ A beat. ] The last one in excess.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Oh. Catholic school.

[pike]

So Catholic my ears bled.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

I hear some people get out of those and still become men of science.

[pike]

They never had parents like my father, then.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

Devout man?

[pike]

If only. No, he was a man of ambition.

[worksmart.livejournal.com]

But not the same ambition as you. He was?