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Heralds are Death-Cast employees who call people between midnight and 3:00 a.m. to inform them that they’re going to die in the next 24 hours. Both Andrea and Victor are heralds.
Herald Quotes in They Both Die at the End
The They Both Die at the End quotes below are all either spoken by Herald or refer to Herald. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Rufus Emeterio, 1:05 a.m.
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I’m trying to stay shut ‘cause I don’t wanna take my problems out on some guy doing his job, even though I have no idea why the hell anyone applies for this position in the first place. Let’s pretend I got a future for a second, entertain me—in no universe am I ever waking up and saying, “I think I’ll get a twelve-to-three shift where I do nothing but tell people their lives are over.” But Victor and others did.
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“You want me to get off my throne and get real with you? Okay. An hour ago I got off the phone with a woman who cried over how she won’t be a mother anymore after her four-year-old daughter dies today. [...] And then I had to put in a request to the Youth Department to dispatch a cop just in case the mother is responsible, which believe it or not, is not the most disgusting thing I’ve done for this job.”
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Mateo, 11:32 a.m.
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“I think we’re already dead, dude. Not everyone, just Deckers. The whole Death-Cast thing seems too fantasy to be true. Knowing when our last day is going down so we can live it right: Straight-up fantasy. The first afterlife kicks off when Death-Cast tells us to live out our day knowing it’s our last; that way we’ll take full advantage of it, thinking we’re still alive. Then we enter the next and final afterlife without any regrets.”
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Herald Term Timeline in They Both Die at the End
The timeline below shows where the term Herald appears in They Both Die at the End. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
September 5, 2017: Mateo Torrez, 12:22 a.m.
Mateo thinks that he always expected his herald would be more sympathetic. Andrea sounds bored as she goes through her spiel, asking Mateo...
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Rufus Emeterio, 1:05 a.m.
...the forecast, classes and festivals, and restaurants with Decker discounts. Rufus interrupts and asks how heralds know who’s going to die. Victor insists he doesn’t know, but Rufus thinks this is...
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Delilah Grey, 5:00 a.m.
...can’t believe he’d do it. She deletes the email receipt of her call with her herald and thinks about calling Victor, but she decides not to—she doesn’t want to give him...
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Rufus, 7:53 a.m.
...the Death-Cast alert on May 10, while Rufus and Olivia were playing cards. Then, the herald asked to speak to Rufus’s dad—and then to Olivia. Mateo asks if Rufus was scared...
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