Answer: A. Ronald Givens
Explanation:
Mortals is about Ross Daniels who is a young writer that isn't having too much luck in the field of writing such that his job was to write obituaries in a local newspaper.
He inadvertently writes an obituary for Mr. Givens someday which got him fires because Mr. Givens wasn't actually dead even though he had been compared to as a turtle for his sluggishness.
Ross then tries to get to the bottoms of where he got the information that Mr. Givens was dead.
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The phrase that indicated a lost in thought feel is the "Midnight shakes the memory". It means that his train of thought is going double time in the dark or at night.
Juliet is greeted with a kiss from Paris, which she isn't pleased about, and whips out the dagger and threatens to kill herself as soon as he leaves.