Death in Hellsborough is administered by the Wisewood Reaper, who operates from the forest boundary with a clipboard, a case file, and the professional patience of someone whose queue has not been short in living memory. He does not ask whether you are ready. He asks which column you belong to and whether a sub-form applies — and I have now appeared in his records under 'entity of disputed status,' which I suspect makes me more paperwork than most.
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Fishermen who work the Damflask after murk-fall have a name for the shadows that settle at the reservoir's centre: the Shivering Grounds. Roger Robinson drowned there with six hands aboard his lugger, and has since been known to haul himself uninvited into passing boats — soaking, unhurried, the hook still in his cheek, asking after his wife. Whether this constitutes death in Hellsborough, or merely a change of circumstance, is a question none of Wisewood's elders have yet settled.
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