"Gone!? How could he be gone? Earlier he lacked the ability to speak!"

"I...don't know..."

"I entered his room, and found this hospital bed empty..."

"...and only a maintenance guy giving evidence that there's anybody left alive on this greeny-blue ball!"

"Huh?"

"Sir! summon all your faculties of memory, for the query I am to put to you is weighted with grave import beyond both your most vivacious pipe-dreams and your most skullduggerest nightmare:"

"Did you see what came to pass with yellow skull?"

"Mmm...nope. Can't say I did."

"'K, look, um, 'Earl.' This is really, really important. As in, a matter of death & life. You were in this room, he was in this room. Didn't you even meet him?"

"A pale yellow skull? Very sick? He liked gumdrops?"

"Hello?"

"Know he? Ha! Nah, eh, wonk?"

"Oh. Well, 'K then, bye."

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