Death's Latest Soul

The Never Ending Quest - Episode 62720

It would be rather a quiet time for Death in the Shreken Caves that day. He had only one being in his ledger - and it wasn't Fred. The knight- turned-dragon could breathe easy for that much longer.

No, his current appointment was female. Allaria might be the only kingdom plagued by the creature, but the prestige of killing it was great that many others would make the attempt. Allaria's southern neighbour, Aqualaria, was only second to Allaria itself in the number of would-be dragon-slayers sent. The latest one to try her luck was named Clara. Like all of her kind before her, she eschewed the use of Belboz, calling him the sanctuary of the weak.

Whatever her beliefs, her battle with the dragon lasted all of fifteen minutes. Death swung his scythe the very second her badly burned body hit the ground and disintegrated. The shock of her parting from her mortal coil was supplanted by her realisation that Death appeared to be male. Aqualarian society was fairly unusual in that it was female dominated. To her, Death should have been female, and she said as much. She was informed that Death was really genderless but being called 'he' was much more preferable to being referred to as 'it'.

  1. One of the future names in Death's ledger was Belboz. The old necromancer had been cheating Death for far too long.
  2. Fred the dragon pursues his destiny.

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