DEATH PROPHET
Krobelus was a Death Prophet--which is one way of saying she told
fortunes for the wealthiest of those who wished to look beyond the veil.
But after years of inquiring on behalf of others, she began to seek
clues on her own fate. When death refused to yield its secrets, she
tried to buy them with her life. But the ultimate price proved
insufficient. Death disgorged her again and again, always holding back
its deepest mysteries. Her jealousy grew. Others could die for
eternity--why not she? Why must she alone be cast back on the shores of
life with such tiresome regularity? Why was she not worthy of
the one
thing all other living creatures took for granted? Still, she would not
be discouraged. Each time she returned from the grave, she brought a bit
of death back with her. Wraiths followed her like fragments of her
shattered soul; her blood grew thin and ectoplasmic; the feasting
creatures of twilight took her for their kin.. She gave a little of her
life with every demise, and it began to seem as if her end was in sight.
With her dedication to death redoubled, and no client other than
herself, Krobelus threw herself ever more fervently into death's abyss,
intent on fulfilling the one prophecy that eluded her: That someday the
Death Prophet would return from death no more. 
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