Soul Music - Maths

That was how Death worked. He never understood exactly what he was doing. He'd do something, and it would turn out wrong.

Her mother; suddenly he had a grown woman on his hands and didn't know what to do next.

So he did something else to make it right, which made it more wrong. Her father. Death's apprentice! And when that went wrong, and its potential wrongness was built right into it, he did something else to make it right. He'd turned over the hourglass.

After that, it was all a matter of maths. And the Duty.

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Soul Music - p203