En garde!

"Speech"

Malachai was determined to be the best darned corpse anyone had ever seen, that's just how dedicated to his craft her was. Still his sides shook when the girl let loose an anguished "no", even if he just managed to keep his laughter silent. But that wouldn't last too long, when he heard the girl's own high giggles. He too soon he was unable to hold it in any longer and added his own voice to hers. He opened his eyes, already starting to brim with tears and rolled a little.

It would take a few minutes before he managed to catch enough breath to formulate words, he rose onto a bent foreleg and beamed at the girl. "You're pretty good." It was a compliment, at least from the boy. "Name's Malachai by the way!"