A faint chemical smell always lingers in the hall outside Finni Mortis’s lab. His fascination with long-dead things is evident to anyone who enters the dimly lit room—every available surface, including much of the floor, is covered in fossils and bones. Each carefully curated collection is marked with handwritten signage describing the contents, where it was found, and species identification, if known. Finni sometimes accepts donations from other scientists for his research, but he usually has so many specimens waiting to be processed that he doesn’t have space for more. On the rare occasion he isn’t focused on old bones, he sometimes works with Ebena Kuranto, which he discovered while investigating a new digging site.