Book Six: Chapter 141

Nearly half an hour later, the two of them separated. The spirit cleaned up in much the same manner Lily did, her robe reappearing on her body and her hair now tidy once more. Lily swatted the giant on the butt as they went back to the sleigh to face the music. There was no way that Death hadn’t heard them.

When they got back to the sleigh, Lily was stunned to see that Death was wearing a massive pair of star-shaped headphones. When he saw the two of them, he waved in delight and took the headphones off.

“Look what I found in the sleigh!” he exclaimed, shaking the headphones around. “Santa has a bunch of audiobooks by someone named Tom Clancy stored on these headphones. I never once considered the benefit of having a book read to me! I can pilot the sleigh while listening to a story, isn’t that wonderful?”

Lily and Chrismas Present looked at each other, both of them grinning.

“The book I’m listening to right now is about a spy.” Death set the headphones down.