Travis McElroy

What's going on?

Give me an insight check, please.

Death drifts in front of you.

between you and Pranklin and lowers his head towards you close enough that you can sort of see through the darkness of the cowl.

You see the kind of milk white sort of skull inside and you are not afraid of this.

It feels sort of natural to you to have this kind of audience with death.

And in this moment, all of those thoughts sort of going through your mind, death,

is recognizing too.

You can feel like a kinship with him that you have kind of aspired to, kind of known is your desire, known that it's something that your family hasn't always gotten right.

All of these like pretty complex realizations are happening and you can feel a kind of understanding from him.

He takes a step back and looks at Pranklin behind him.

He looks at you, Rictus, he says,

I can't keep helping you, Rictus, if I don't know that you are ready to leave behind your family's ways and become my instrument.

If I help you now,

I am going to require collateral to know that you're ready to do this.

And he holds out his hand and grasps and pulls backward.

As he does that, you see the ghostly figures of your great, great, great grandfather and his dad, Rictus Ravenwoods I and II, who have been with you in ghost form this entire time, pull towards him.

And they are holding on to you as well.

Death says, this is unnatural.

This is unnatural.