Vincent van Gogh Harvest Landscape

Vincent van Gogh Harvest LandscapeUnknown Artist Apple Tree with Red FruitGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and EurydiceGeorge Frederick Watts Orpheus and Eurydice detail
eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the Realtime universe.
Death and Fate looked at each other. Death grinned - He had no alternative, of course, being made of implacable bone. The whetstone sang rhythmically along the blade as He continued His task.
"I have a vantage point.
The scythe ceased its song.
"They die in a few hours," said Fate. "It is fated."
Death stirred, and the stone began to move again.
"I thought you would be pleased," said Fate.task for you," said Fate. His words drifted across death's scythe and split tidily into two ribbons of consonants and vowels.I HAVE TASKS ENOUGH THIS DAY, said Death in a voice as heavy as neutronium, THE WHITE PLAGUE ABIDES EVEN NOW IN PSEUDOPOLIS AND I AM BOUND THERE TO RESCUE MANY OF ITS CITIZENS FROM HIS GRASP. SUCH A ONE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN THESE HUNDRED YEARS. I AM EXPECTED TO STALK THE STREETS, AS IS MY DUTY."I refer to the matter of the little wanderer and the rogue wizard," said Fate softly, seating himself beside Death's black-robed form and staring down at the,distant, multifaceted jewel which was the Disc universe as seen from this extra-dimensional