Priest - de Ulloa Residence, London, Wednesday Evening

[bitten_notshy]

Jack had stayed at the library late after hsi first day of classes. He wasn't studying -- it was all material he'd covered at the age of 12. He was, however, trying to ingratiate himself with his fellow students. They were such an interesting group, and Jack asked so many interesting questions about their lives that no one noticed he hardy talked about his own.

Home at last, he found a note from Sebastien indicating he'd be out working, then cooked himself a light dinner. Then he went up to his room and took out his phone. There were a few people back in Fandom he needed to check in with.

He dialed.

[OOC: If you want him to have called you, he did!]

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[bitten_notshy]

Jack knew Warren! ... ish. "One always likes to be missed," Jack said. "Thank you. What have i missed in the last few weeks, anyhow?"

[glacial_queen]

"Nothing of note, thank the Darkness," Karla said. "Well, the newbie picnic where I am fairly certain a male was flirting with me."

She was very proud of herself for noticing!

"Ben and I also made ice cream last week. It turned out very well." Well, the ones that Ender had helped with, where they hadn't been allowed to interpret any of the ingredients. "I...oh, wait." Her voice faltered a moment. "Have you heard? About Professor Drake? And Didi?"

[bitten_notshy]

"Which male?" Jack asked, curious who had flirted so fully that even Karla caught it. "And no, I hadn't. But I barely knew either of them. What happened?"

[glacial_queen]

"His name is Kon," Karla said. "At first, I thought he was just trying to get me to share my snacks with him, but then he kept calling me beautiful and stuff. He's an odd one."

The red and blue spandex had been her first clue.

"They're...not here anymore," Karla said awkwardly. "Didi was the incarnation of Death in human form and her time in that form was up. I'm not sure if Didi died or was subsumed or what the proper terminology is, but she's just not--here--any more. And Death went on to do what Death does. Before she went, however, she took Professor Drake, too. He'd made a deal to become human for a year and then die. I think--I hope she was with him in the end."

Karla wasn't sure how Death-with-a-capital-D worked in this world. But she hoped.

[bitten_notshy]

"Oh." Jack was caught off guard by that; death was never happy to hear about, even if he hadn't really known the people involved.

And, well, if Death really was a person, he had a few things he would have liked to say to her. They wouldn't have been very nice things. It was probably better he'd never known Didi except to nod to.

"I don't know the first thing about any of -- that. Is everyone doing okay, more or less?"

[glacial_queen]

"Jono's taking it pretty hard," said Karla, Queen of Understatement. "It was a tough week. The newbies came soon after, so everything kind of got pushed to the back-burner, but...It helped that Drake knew he was going to die and was very okay about it. He threw himself a wake at Caritas. Got everyone as drunk as possible. I'm still not sure if him kissing Professor Skywalker actually happened or if I was just that gone."

[bitten_notshy]

"I'm going to pretend it happened, because it would have been beautiful," Jack said, a bit wistful. "It sounds like a good party. Which is a strange thing to say about a wake, isn't it?"

[glacial_queen]

"It's what he wanted," Karla said. "He wanted a party where everyone was laughing and singing and drunk and happy." Karla had obliged him on all four. "I don't know how things are usually done in this world, but I couldn't think of a better send-off for someone like Drake."

[bitten_notshy]

"It depends on the faith and the person," Jack answered. "I haven't been to a terrible number of funerals, to be honest."

Vampires didn't have them, after all.

"But that's -- something like what I would want, if I got the choice. What do they do in your world?"

[glacial_queen]

"Something similar, I gather. A gathering of the close family and friends. A Priestess presides, and if the transition was made to demon-dead without them falling to Hell, she opens up the Gate so the dead can leave the living Realms. If they didn't transition, the body is burned with witchfire and the ashes scattered or kept by the family. You?"