Lance jokes about Hyde being a barely-there corpse like Fred.
Fred glares at his son.
Can Fred and Lance behave long enough not to betray the secret they're hiding that Fred is a fraud, he is Lance the Necromancer's father the deposed emperor of the solar system who is a semi-dead man which was why he was deposed and why he cannot be emperor or king of anything.
With them goes Angela, Lance's stepmother. Fred's 2nd wife who was his reincarnated first wife now a Fate. Making things more complicated, they are still very much in love. But only Lance knows they were married. They're trying to hide their relationship.
Rachel is a lover of gothic poetry and the stories of Emily Dickinson, Poe, and other poets and writers. She writes in a gothic sometimes romantic, and somewhat eclectic style