Is that...another human being? And not glowing some weird color??

And isn't that the floating rock guy who shoved you through a door into your own dead body what feels like a lifetime ago? He doesn't recognize you, but you *are* wearing your staff badge right now.

You wanted to get in here, get some dolphin chow and get out, but you have...questions. May as well start casually.

COUNTER

GOD! YES!! ORDER AT ME! ORDER AT ME!!! YEAH BABY YEAH!!!


STONE SLAB

Ha, don't mind him, he doesn't even work here!


FERN

...How does he not wor...

...Never mind. Didn't you work at the morgue before? I uh, think we met once.


STONE SLAB

Hmmmm, maybe! You meet a lot of folks in the old biz, not that many of them talk back!


FERN

"Old biz," huh? Do I want to know how you get from dead people to, uh...


???:

You sure you wanna get him started?


STONE SLAB

Of course she does! It's great! There we were, archiving old biovessels, not a service all that many zones care about these layers, mind you, when the stiffs started really growing on us outta nowhere, right?! Biomatter out the wazooey! Right out the wanamingo! Grew back faster'n we could mince 'em!

So of course the higher-higher ups got offered a sweet new merger by INFINITY FLESHTASTE SENSATIONAL (NO BAD GUARANTEE!!!) and look at me now! Really killing two jobs with one stone! Ha!


FERN

That's. Lovely. That sounds...just great and lovely.


???:

Yeah, best not to dwell on it.

How you holding up, anyway?


FERN

"Holding up?"


???:

Wwweeeee don't really get all that many... human being people lately.

Not since home got all, you know.

*The young lady makes a breathy mouth sound and gesticulation representative of something exploding.






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