"Yeah," Owen said, chuckling a bit. "Apparently what we ran into wasn't Death, just something being from the darkness trying to pass itself off as Death," He said, reaching and scratching Kojak behind the ears. "Death is actually a teenage girl. A lot perkier than I would have figured."
He was grinning like it was all a big joke, but there was a look in his eyes that made it certain that he was being serious. It really was such a ridiculous situation, though. It was hard not to laugh about it.
"He is," Owen said. "Proof that not everything in this place is really that horrid."