First Interlude Pandora

<Pandora> "Marcus, dear, if you meet a 'Marley Barliman' stay the hell away from him or her."

<Marcus> Isn't Marley always a girl's name if it's the first one?

<Pandora> "Well, I haven't heard it as a given name in ages, so, who knows. They name girls 'Shirley,' these days."

<Pandora> "At any rate, that turns out to be Death and she's in Darfur personally right now. Avoid her like… well… her."

<Marcus> Well, I like to think that I see Death as rarely as is humanly possible, but that would be self-delusion, darling.