Take With You What You Will

“Are you being paid to attend, too?” she said with a little laugh.

By Walter Gramatté — The Eckhardt-Gramatté Foundation, CC0

There were fifteen-hundred paid mourners at the funeral of Jazon Vorsil, multi-planet mogul and Prime-Tyme star.

“How did he die?” whispered one woman to her blond companion.

He shrugged. “Does it matter? I mean, he was a terrible person. Look around, there’s nobody here who actually cared about him.”

“Are you being paid to attend, too?” she said with a little laugh.

He snorted. “Hell no. I’m his son.”

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