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<standing over a covered body; its humanoid but too small to be an adult>

...How did it come to this...?

<sits on a chair by the side of the body, looking at the floor>

...just a kid...just a little kid...

<has tried using healing power for over an hour but to no avail; the child is dead>

...not another one...

<and suddenly, hears a noise coming from the other bodies contained within>

What in the world? Or at least, I hope its of this world...

<stirring among the bodies, then a low moaning sound... is that... a yawn?>

Yaaaaaaaaaawn. Whu... who's there?

<exnihil swings his legs over from around the table on which he had been surreptitiously grabbing a few winks>

Cobie? What's going on?

Please don't tell anyone that I've been staying here after my place burned down in that Phineas business last yea... oh my God... is that a kid!?

<appears from a sulphurous cloud of darkness>

Don't worry Cobie, it just me.
Whoever...whatever did this...
I don't know what they've done, their spirits didn't pass through the Poltergiest Area.
It's...as if they've been obliverated spiritually.

Bloody Liberty! Are you sleeping here in the Morgue?!

<Ex's words register and Cobie turns back to the body>

Uh...this kid...didn't make it...

Part of the job.

<changing subject but now curious>

What are you doing here, Ex? I thought the dead were rising or something for a moment.

Of course, it makes sense...there are no other bodies in the morgue. There hasn't been a murder or victim in months other than this child here.

But wait a minute, then who is in this one...?

<turns to yet another table with the third and last body in the Morgue>

<sees Dedman enter>

Deddy--what do you sense from this third body?

MAn Alive!...I'm still out of phase with reality.

<Pushes into the Real world and repeats his discovery>

THe third body...the same...
but there is some kind of lingering aura, its familiar, but auras were never my thing

That's odd. And frankly, I can use the distraction! Let's rip off that sheet and see what's under here!

<gets closer>

I suddenly feel tremendous dread! As if something terrifying is under there!

It better not be one of your misbegotten children!

Couldn't be! At least, they were all accounted for last I checked. Except for Kryptios the fire demon but I could have sworn he was stuck in the 7th layer of hell.

<grabs sheet covering the body>

Shall I...?

<the sheet is withdrawn but what lies beneath defies rational explanation>

What the hell is that thing???

<short of having a corporeal form, the revealed shape seems almost a coalesced vapour>

deddy? Is this what you see in the Poltergeist Area?

<summons a roiling ball of negative ectoplasm>

k, I'm ready, lets do it!

Nope, people generally look like they do here while passing through the PA...this...this is a shattered spirit, I've never seen anything like it....

<suddenly feels tremendous pain in his insides>

Ugh!

Suddenly feel terrible pain! The minute you pulled back that cloth...

<falls to the ground>

GAH....COVER IT UP! COVER IT UP!!!!

<nose starts bleeding>

Ex...can't reach it...you need to...

Hurry Ex....I'll drag Cobie away from it..

Trust me, I'm trying!

<but suddenly the shattered spirit begins to rise, it's very form ebbing and flowing into a confused mass of half formed shapes. An eerie sound growls forth>

Are those even words? Dedman do you speak the language of these spirits?

Damn it we gotta get out of here now, thats the language of the Damned...This thing is stright from the 'bad' of the afterlife...

<magnetically pulls Ex back out of potential harm's way>

Its voice sounds like a terrible violin!

And Ex...you ain't going anywhere yet.

<Sends three balls of ectoplasm at the being, but they only seem to make it bigger>

Get out of here guys, I'll hold it off while you escape

<suddenly appears>

LMBPers! You are in grave danger! Stand back!

<turns towards apparition and places shield around it>

This creature is beyond your power levels! It is no undead zombie--it is a Lord of the Evil Realms!

Deddy, we ain't leaving without you!

And if the Spectre is here, this is serious. She hasn't shown up in quite a long time, and we've had some serious battles.

<the phantom rears... shouting it's spectral wail, then collapses just as suddenly with one final... audible word>

I... I think it said, "Mother?"