"Like I could ever say no to you, Cutie," Charon cackled. Of course, a job was a job, and it wasn't like the ferryman was going to ignore his duty. Well...unless the spiders were having another party. Or he needed a nap. Or he felt like dumping people in the middle of the lake.

Whatever!

"To be honest, I didn't expect to see you again," the skeleton added with that unnerving, eternal grin of his. "Thought you'd either ran away or gotten your heads ripped off by something nasty -- hell, maybe even both, hah!

"Anyway, the point being, you guys surprised me, and a dead guy like me has kind of seen it all by this point. You dig? So that's why this one's gonna be on the house."