"I always thought it would be the dying that would be so bad," he says, frowning a little. "There are many painful ways to go. Poison, blood loss, a knife in the heart or a slit throat. Particularly poison. Most unpleasant."

If she's going to speak from experience, then so will he. It's just that he's always been on the other side of the "dying" experience. The "killing" one. "So it's true? We imPorts return."