When you take a person out of the world, you don't just take them, do you? You take everything they were, too.

Hear me Niah, hear me Mother. This flesh your feast. This blood your wine. This life, this end, my gift to you. Hold him close.

Wait," he whispered.But she didn't.

People often shit themselves when they die. Their muscles slack and their souls flutter free and everything else just...slips out.