Dead Girl (illustrated by Kai Martin)

In Worlds’ End, Brant Tucker uses the bathroom in between tales. In the bathroom he meets Klaproth.

Later, Klaproth and his students join Brant’s table and Petrefax asks if he can tell a tale. He admits that his tale is a true tale.

Petrefax is sent to witness an air burial by his master Klaproth. As part of the air burial ceremony each of the people performing the ceremony must tell a story. Master Hermas recounts his days as a young student, with Klaproth, under his teacher Mistress Veltis.

Hermas speaks highly of Mistress Veltis. He tells of a time when a small girl was brought in to the Necropolis after having been crushed by a rock fall. The young girl’s body was nothing more than a “mess of meat and bone.” Mistress Veltis took to preparing the small girl’s body for burial and had been able to restore the girl’s appearance. He describes the perfection as life like, saying that in the tiny casket, the girl had the appearance of being sleeping.

This is the little dead girl Mistress Veltis worked on in the Necropolis.

The girl appears in Sandman # 55, on page 18, in panel 5.