"Pomegranate"
Mr. Undertaker had caught her arm and pulled her aside, after she'd slipped away and left Mey-Rin to guard the potential victim.
He guided her gently into a separate room in the back of his shop, where he ushered her into a dusty armchair and pressed a cup of tea into her hands. Then he disappeared with a swish of fabric behind a doorway marked with long dark curtains, and Lizzy was left staring into her cup.
It was an actual cup. Bone white, with tiny pink and gold flowers curling around it's edges, it looked as though it might once have been decent quality, but now it was chipped and the handle had a thin spider web of a crack running along its surface. In her hands, the cup was almost uncomfortably hot. Lizzy tried not to think.
Mr. Undertaker came back carrying a long, thin, package and knelt in front of her chair.
Situated as they were, they were of a height, and Mr. Undertaker gazed at her through his bangs before gently tugging the untouched tea from her hands and placing it on the floor.
"I've been thinking," he began, "and how you've been operating has been fine under normal circumstances. But we've gone past normal, now, Little Lady, and if you're going to go back out there on your own you'll need more than what you have. So, I thought that you should take this."
He pushed the package into Elizabeth's hands and pulled away, turning to fidget with a skull and several glass bottles on one of the small tables in the room. Lizzy unwound the paper wrapping.
"It's a rapier," she blinked, "I already have swords, Mr. Undertaker. Thank you, but…"
"Just keep it with you," the mortician hummed, still rummaging through the contents of his table, "My advice has paid off before. Just hold on to it, will you, M'lady?"
He finally turned to look at her again, and she thought she caught a glimpse of green behind his bangs. She found she liked the thought of Mr. Undertaker sharing the same color eyes as most of her family.
"All right."
"Pomegranate:" the red fruit whose seeds bound Persephone to the Underworld