Annuakat, Amol-Kalit
The Royal Palace - First Chamber of the Imperial Mortician
The Royal Palace - First Chamber of the Imperial Mortician
Gaheris removed his mask. It was a large and ungainly thing: wooden, beak-shaped, and filled with all manner of pleasant-smelling herb. Not a necessity for the work he did, but it offered a welcome respite. He wiped a gloved hand along his apron, leaving another in an assembly of red smears.
Meanwhile, his latest assistant peered into a nearby barrel, marveling at the byproduct of their gruesome work: a tangled mass of innards and viscera. Gaheris recalled a similar sense of bewilderment when he first began. Who could have guessed a humanoid body contained so much... Stuff.
Wrapped together so compactly. Like walking sacks of pulsating, wet meat. But that was being reductive.
"All this is useless?"
"Except as fertilizer, yes," Gaheris replied. Too early to remove the mask, but it had started to chafe. He was used to the stench anyway. "The worthwhile organs go in a jar. As I explained previously."
He glanced away from the barrel now, back to the long table with the glass jars lined up along it. Lungs and liver, spleen and heart. All suspended in a clear and viscous fluid. A charming sight, truly. The assistant carried his gaze to the operating table, where the pale corpse of some criminal lay. Split neatly open, right down the middle. And utterly emptied.
"And now we... Inject it? Or something?"
"Not this one, no."
Some corpses were not worth putting through the full procedure. And so once stripped of usable materials, would be disposed of in whatever manner was most convenient. Probably cremation.
A light knock came from the chamber door, and a Red Guild armsman poked his head through. "The Emperor's, uh... Lady, is here."
Delightful. Gaheris wiped off his other hand, and a new red smear appeared. Kailyn or something. Mistress? Whore? Slave? Gaheris was not familiar with the intricacies of her position at court. But apparently some magical aptitude and the fact that no other suitable personnel were available meant she had to follow him around.
"Yes, let her in."
Cleaning up would not be necessary.
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