She subsequently employs the wizard Igneous Cutwell, who is able to see her as he is trained to see things that are invisible to normal people (like death) to make her existence clear to the public.

She soon finds that the rest of the world no longer acknowledges her existence at all unless she confronts them and even then only in a confused manner which is forgotten immediately after. Keli lives, but shortly after the assassin's death, people begin acting as if something had happened without knowing why, such as a solemn song being played. Later on, Death assigns Mort to collect the soul of Princess Keli, daughter of the murdered king, but he instead kills the assassin the Duke of Sto Helit (Keli's uncle) had sent after her. After Mort unsuccessfully tries to prevent the assassination, Death warns him that all deaths are predetermined, and that he cannot interfere with fate. Mort later accompanies Death as he travels to collect the soul of a king, who is due to be assassinated by the scheming Duke of Sto Helit. Death takes Mort to his domain, where he meets Death's elderly manservant Albert, and his adopted daughter Ysabell. Just before the last stroke of midnight, Death arrives and takes Mort on as an apprentice (though his father thinks he has been apprenticed to an undertaker). Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an apprenticeship not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity for thinking someone else's problem.

3.12 'I've already had lunch.' said MortĪs a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business.3.11 () - 'I could point you in the direction of a great brothel'.3.10 Once again, once again, let him live for us!.3.9 Hundred years, hundred years, let him live for us,.3.8 Hundred years, hundred years, let him live for us,.3.5 Jeszcze raz, jeszcze raz - niech zyje, zyje nam.3.4 Sto lat, sto lat, niech zyje, zyje nam.3.3 Sto lat, sto lat, niech zyje, zyje nam.3.2 Mort replies, 'Well I think it was because you were up to your knees in horseshit'.3.1 () - 'AND WHY DO YOU THINK I DIRECTED YOU TO THE STABLES? THINK CAREFULLY NOW.'.

Mort by Terry Pratchett