Cul-de-Sacrifice — Chapter 1: The Altar in the Cupboard, Page 19
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In a stone chamber filled with bones, Mr. Keane holds up a lantern beside Miss Shaw while an older man points toward a skull among scattered skeleton parts. Older man: “There you are...” The skull lies beneath a rib cage. The older man gestures toward the bones as Mr. Keane stands beside him. Older man: “Wonderful! Mr Keane, Miss Shaw, allow me to introduce the late Cardinal Giovanni Bellandi. Mr Keane, please retrieve the head.” Mr. Keane: “By hand, sir?” Miss Shaw leans over a pile of bones. Miss Shaw: “Before anyone picks him up... Cardinal Bellandi, may Sam move you?” Miss Shaw stands beside Mr. Keane, who holds up a skeleton. Miss Shaw: “He certainly remembers you, sir.” Mr. Keane: “I should hope so. Our previous encounter became somewhat... impertinent.” Miss Shaw: “At what point in that... intemperance... did the dismemberment occur?” The older man kneels beside a skeleton laid out on the floor. Older man: “Head, ribs and an arm. That should be enough of him to restore his full sense of identity... Ah. Yes, of course... mobility.”
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Mr. Keane and Miss Shaw stand among bones in a stone chamber as an older man directs them to retrieve a skull, and later kneels beside a reassembled skeleton.
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A housing-weary tenant, his Goth lawyer girlfriend and a vain necromancer try to prove the living and the dead can share a house fairly. Cheap rent, utilities included, undead housemates. At least they don't eat your food.