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“I wouldn’t,” said the Curator. “The last person who touched it forgot how to breathe. They simply stood there, alive, lungs full of air, but the knowledge of breathing had been replaced by the knowledge of their own end. They died of confusion.”

Outside, the rain of Ver Lithran continued to fall. Somewhere in the city, a child took its first breath. Somewhere else, an old man released his last. And in the nameless shop between the pawnbroker and the tenement, a young thief reached out and took the Curator’s ashen hand. anydeathrelics

Proponents counter that is actually more respectful than traditional death collecting. By valuing the anonymous dead equally with the famous, they argue, practitioners are fighting the existential terror of being forgotten. "We are all going to become anydeathrelics eventually," one collector told an underground podcast in 2023. "The bones of a king turn to dust just as quickly as those of a beggar. Collecting both is an act of cosmic justice." “I wouldn’t,” said the Curator

Aris looked at the locket. It seemed smaller now. Less like a treasure and more like a trap. They died of confusion

“Then what do I trade?” she asked. “If not my fear?”