After a small mishap with a large boulder, Maud Pie meets Death itself. Usually, it would take her spirit away and the whole deal would be over, but there is also another choice that she could choose.

No-one sane enough to have met the Grim Reaper would ever dare to accept it, but Maud Pie sees it as an opportunity for something else.

Research, of course.

What kind of research? Even I don't know.