Chapter XVI - Dissimilar Dispositions

Electro gradually came conscious again. Pushing his hand onto the ground and lifting himself up, he was astonished at what he had thought was a log and caused him to trip up. There, submerged in the marshland, was the coffin poking out of the ground with the gold writing printed onto the side saying, 'Forever loved, Butler Burns'.

Grunting, Electro imagined it was a sign; perhaps Butler Burns was getting his own back on him. This further made Electro glad that he no longer had to put up with the Butler - that the Butler could no longer remind him of his past trauma with Cobra.

After spitting on the sunken coffin, Electro stomped back to the tent, livid, his face burning in rage. Now, he had no intention whatsoever of bring it inside - for all he cared, the Butler's body could rot there and then in the swamp. The tent next to the tarpaulin was in sight, and Electro was dreading the telling off he would get.

Electro had always gone out of his way to distance himself from the Butler when he was alive, and Butler Burns understood that he wasn't popular with Electro. Although Butler Burns was not proud of being associated with Cobra and the murder of Electro Von Poison's parents, Electro still had no sympathy for him.

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Electro was currently at the tent, his face still pallid and pasty, as white as ivory. Electro lay in his sleeping bag and glared at Lord Horror Hill; why did he have to take the coffin inside the tent in the first place?