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54you%u2019re saying this. Does it mean an end to our camera feed swaps?%u201d%u201cNo. But this new request of yours... well... it%u2019s just not right. I%u2019ll pay you the twenty percent cut and I want to hear no more about this issue,%u201d John Tucker told him firmly. %u201cI think it%u2019s better for you to continue fucking the lady who opened the door to me. Dead sheep are sacred and not for having sex with. Oh, and send me the feeds of you sodomising her and I will send you the new ones of Dawn.%u201dThe vicar stood up and barked at him in a sharp tone, %u201cI have no idea what you mean about my dead sheep.%u201dJohn Tucker smiled. %u201cLet me know when the corpse parts will be delivered. You can add some of the broken pieces from the headstone but not too much. I%u2019ll tell the parents that it%u2019s all arranged for two weeks from today. Is that okay with you?%u201dThe vicar nodded. %u201cFine. I%u2019ll see you out, John. Take care. I see you as a very dear friend in this troubled world.%u201d%u201cI see you as the same,%u201d John Tucker said.The days passed and the moment came around for John to prepare the body of Caroline Brown in case her parents came to see her in her coffin and looking alive, when John knew that the look of all people devoid of life was not very attractive at all. This is where he came in and applied his skills. They had said they did not wish to come, but many said that and then changed their minds.He hadn%u2019t looked at her since the day he%u2019d put her into the cold drawer. The unit freezes no one. It just lowers body temperature so the rate of decay caused by living bacteria inside us all is slowed down. He opened the drawer and used the trolley to slide the drawer all the way out. It was easy to drop the side, role her over to the trolley, then wheel the trolley back under the bright main light where he would make her up, ensuring she looked more alive and just as if she was sleeping.He rolled her over onto the table where he spent long hours doing such work, and removed the sheet covering her body and face. He looked down at her and froze to the spot. She looked so alive that he had to bend down and put his ear to her mouth to ensure she was not actually breathing. No sound at all. Certainly dead, he thought. But he The Undertaker