The Book of the Dead

Why in the world they all wanted to hang out in a place whose every square inch of wall space was covered with bones, after escaping just such an environment at work, was a mystery to him. The dead king had to know the spells, the secret names of the serpents, and all kinds of other arcane knowledge to finish the journey. Pocho was dead, true enough; but that had been an open-and-shut case of self-defense. It remained to be seen who, in the end, would prevail.