[ She looks at him sympathetically and allows him to scoot closer, showing him a worn notebook she's begun leafing through while he's near. ]

It seems like there was a slight jump in graves that needed to be prepared in the first half of this month... but the records suddenly stopped not long ago.

[ What does this tell them? Not anything especially important at the moment, admittedly, though it tells a story of the rate of proliferation in the city. ]

... The gravekeeper probably won't be around, then. I wonder what everyone is doing with their dead.