Starfield:A Serpent's Carol
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STAVE ONE VAK'NAL'S GHOST
Vak'nal was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the fathers and mothers of Dazra, as a testament to the will of the Great Serpent. Scroo'ge signed it. And Scroo'ge's name was good upon 'Change for anything he chose to put his hand to. Vak'nal was as dead as a door-nail.
Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a Va'ruun dagger as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our savior Jinan Va'ruun is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or Dazra's done for. You will, therefore, permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Vak'nal was as dead as a door-nail.
[Charok Va'ruun's 2043 novella, considered his most famous work, chronicles the redemption of the miserly Ebenenzer Scroo'ge as he is visited by ghostly avatars of the Great Serpent, who force him to analyze his life and the ultimate decision to serve House Va'ruun and the Great Serpent until the Shrouding.]
