Jack Vettriano The Duellists

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They'd never told her about this. Parents never do. Your father could be Death's apprentice and your mother Death's adopted daughter, but that's just fine detail when they become Parents. Parents were never young. They were merely waiting to become At least . . . the normal kind . . .
Her mother . . . the girl who would become her mother . . . was pressed against a pillar. She had actually improved with age, Susan thought. Her dress sense certainly had. And she mentally shook herself. Fashion comments? Now?
Death stood over Mort, sword in one hand and Mort's own lifetimer in the other.
YOU DON'T KNOW HOW SORRY THIS MAKES ME, he said.
'I might,' said Mort.Parents.Susan reached the end of the shelves.Death was standing over her father . . . she corrected herself, the boy who would be her father.Three red marks burned on his cheek where Death had struck him. Susan raised a hand to the pale marks on her own face.But that's not how heredity works.