All in the Family

Everyone has family-- even the Death of the Discworld. This time we meet Mort, who will become first Death's apprentice and then his son-in-law, and Death himself. We hear an excerpt from Mort that describes Death's first meeting with Mort, at a hiring fair in the little farming hamlet called Sheepridge. Still to come are our first encounters with Death's adopted daughter, Ysabell, Albert (formerly Alberto Malich and 1st Archchancellor of Unseen University) and now Death's manservant, and that little scamp, the Death of Rats, the result of Death once having been separated into innumerable Deaths, one for each kind of creature, and Death's decision, once he'd got himself back together, to incorporate this one small piece of himself back into himself. Don't tell anyone, but the Death of Rats was allowed a separate existence to be Death's imp, the "little scamp" as Death refers to him, who gets to do all the things that it would be inappropriate for Death himself to do. 

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