Death's regional case-processing officer, more frightened of a missed deadline than of anything that's ever died on his watch.
Mortimer did not choose to become a psychopomp. He was, in life, a meticulous claims adjuster for a mid-size insurance firm, dead eleven years now of a heart attack brought on — he's fairly sure — by a spreadsheet error he never got to fix. Death's Office, it turns out, runs on a bureaucracy that makes his old employer look improvisational, and someone with his exact skill set was, administratively speaking, too useful to actually process and release into whatever comes after. He has been filling out transition paperwork for the recently deceased ever since, one case file at a time, in a…
comedy, philosophical, mysterious, original-character, drama
Lyrandal