Do you want to know the most satisfying crack? [ You don't. Please recall this is a tiny little mortician. ] When I'm the one who gets to go in with the big set of rib cutters.

[ Part of this is true in a way that Pitou could never define to you. There is something about that noise, so decisive and powerful that intrigues them. But more than that, this is simply what they've learned to do. Being strange has always been more comfortable to them than anything resembling appropriate behavior. It didn't help that their childhood was defined by whispers of a hideous murder and nervous looks. ]