High count

When I walk in, Death is going through some scrolls, and he's frowning. This is the first time I've seen him like this, and when he looks up at me, his mind seems miles from where I am.

"Hello Cecilia." he says, and I glance at him, curiously.

"What are you doing?" I ask him, and he waves his arm around, a shiny desk appearing behind him as he places the many scrolls on his desk, careful not to let them fall.

"I didn't want to worry you, but it seems like the amount of deaths have been going on an all time high. At first, I didn't know if there was a plague that was slowly taking over the kingdoms, and lands alike, but as I really read through the scrolls, their causes of death were anything but unnatural." he said, and he pinched his nose bridge, as if lessening a headache.

"Might I take a look?" I asked, and he shook his head, placing a hand over the scrolls.

"Even if you weren't mortal, I couldn't let you look at these. These aren't just the now deaths, these are also