Hadley Quietus

Hadley Quietus is the next Death in Aunty Misery. She's expected to become a grim reaper but honestly she finds the idea rather restricting because she wants to be more. She feels like she could find this through being trapped in a tree unable to collect souls. Therefore she's kind of a perfect Roybel, using her destiny to avoid her duty.

Story
So there's this old woman who has a cool pear tree but all the kids keep stealing her fruit. Then for her piety she gets a magical enchantment. Her tree can be climbed but once up the person cannot get down until Aunt Misery allows them to. Death comes for her and she asks for some pears for the journey. Death climbs up and cannot get down so Auntie gets a long extension on her lifespan.

Hadley's role
Hadley is to be the Death of Aunty Misery. She's fine with the idea of her story but respects the decision of the next Aunt Misery to rebel and has thus resigned herself to just becoming another grim reaper as she was meant to be. She has accepted that her story won't happen and if it does it will take a good sixty, seventy, eighty years until it happens.

How the story will play out
Hadley will disappear from the human realm quickly after graduation and spend her days going for the dead. However one day a familiar face is seen far too early. The next Aunt, a sickly girl, had almost wasted away from illness and Hadley was to come for her. Hadley hesitates. If the story isn't to be followed then she must take her from life. She's so young and completely stunned. She didn't realise how quickly her end had come. She still had so much she wanted to do in life, a goal yet to be reached. Hadley looks at her sadly, expectantly. No matter what she had said about destiny, she didn't want to die.

"please... some pears..." a weak voice.

Hadley gave a brief nod of understanding. In an overly cheery and loud tone she added "Of course I'll get you some pears for your journey," in a loose attempt to appear tricked. She goes outside and pauses at the tree for only a brief moment before promptly climbing up it. She feels the effect immediately, a powerful force binding her, tugging her even at the bones. She climbs higher until she reaches a level and wide branch, the most comfortable of them. The sick girl shuffles over hunched into a thick coat. She looked at her best friend, guilt in her eyes. Hadley shifted her position. Talking as if using a script she blandly proclaimed,

"You have tricked me! I cannot get down and now you will live forever!..." Cautiously she adds "if you are meant to die I suppose you no longer need illness..." She removes a small gourd from a pocket. It contained the healing waters of the Godfather Death, taken in secret. She tosses it down.

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