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→The hourglass that Bill Door picks up from the desk in his dream was Ysabell's.
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He doesn't know Miss Flitworth well enough (yet) to react so strongly to her mortality, and there was more than one lifetimer on the desk, suggesting that it was Ysabell's and Mort's pending and simultaneous deaths that his psyche was processing. It's probably Ysabell's, not Mort's, because Mort and Death didn't part on such good terms, so Death wouldn't regret his ex-apprentice's demise as much as his adopted daughter's. Plus, conversing with Miss Flitworth had reminded him of Ysabell, whom he had enough understanding of mortality as Bill Door to grieve for.
* As ''Reaper Man'' takes place no more than a couple of years before ''[[Soul Music (novel)|Soul Music]]'', it could well be Death's awareness that he'd soon have to perform the Duty for Ysabell that'd left him so distracted, the Auditors were able to petition Azrael to retire him in the first place. This makes his last words to Miss Flitworth's fiancee a case of [[Fridge Brilliance]]: it's an indication that he's accepting how his own daughter and son-in-law, too, will be going on to the afterlife ''together''.
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