Debt Collector, Episodes 7-9

These are the seventh through ninth episodes in the first season of The Debt Collector serial. What's your life worth on the open market? A debt collector can tell you precisely. Lirium plays the part of the grim reaper well, with his dark trenchcoat, jackboots, and the black marks on his soul that every debt collector carries. He's just in it for his cut, the ten percent of the life energy he collects before he transfers it on to the high potentials, the people who will make the world a better place with their brains, their work, and their lives. The third set of three episodes of the Debt Collector serial are collectively the length of a short novel, or 176 pages. That hit of life energy, a bottle of vodka, and a visit from one of Madam Anastazja's sex workers keep him alive, stable, and mostly saneuntil he collects again.