prompt #87 - menace | "by any other"

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Title: By Any Other
Challenge/Prompt: #87 - Menace
Original Fiction or Fanfiction: Original
Rating: G
Disclaimer: I do not own necromancy.
Summary: He didn't have much of a penchant for the dramatic. Or the imaginative.

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She tilted the skull to the side, admiring the sharp ridges, the smooth dips, the almost heart-shaped hollow where a nose would go in life, and glanced over to where her companion was still paging through the book, perpetual frown darkening his features. “So what do you call him? Grim? Black Shuck? Baskerville?”

“Don’t be dramatic,” he muttered. “I call him…” He paused, seemed to think a moment, and then said, “Dog.”

She and the skull shared a look. “Terrifying,” she observed dryly.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard him use a capital for it,” the skull replied. “It’s progress.”