Death informs Mort that his training will begin with him accompanying Death as he travels to collect the soul of a king scheduled to be assassinated by the Duke of Sto Helit. Mort accompanies Death to his unearthly domain, and is introduced to Death’s servant Albert, an extremely old man, and Death’s adopted daughter Ysabell. Lezek mistakes Death for a normal undertaker, and Mort is allowed to take on the position. At first Mort seems destined to fail in this as well, but just before midnight Death himself appears and offers to make Mort his apprentice. His father Lezek gives in and takes Mort to the local hiring fair, hoping to find the boy another profession to pursue and happy to get his daydreaming son out of his hair. On Discworld, Mort is an awkward and unhappy apprentice to his family’s farm, and hopelessly fails at every aspect of it. He selects one and takes it to a candle to see by, and begins a vision of the world, slowly narrowing it down to a field where a young boy is running. The story begins with Death in a room where hourglasses associated with every living person are stored. It is the fourth book in Pratchett’s hugely successful Discworld series of humorous fantasies, and the first to focus on the recurring character of Death. Mort is a novel by Sir Terry Pratchett, published in 1987.
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