"Oh?" Well, he's going to file that away and edge a little farther out of range. "Anna--she was a little girl, well, a young lady, but she said trolls were...nice." Well, not exactly, but she hadn't made them sound malevolent.

It takes him another minute of sloshing through the flooding decks to parse that, but he...thinks he's got it. "You're right. Death isn't the hard part. Everyone does it, eventually. It's just...it's supposed to mean something. It's supposed to be significant, personal. Not...not...some spectacle for people's entertainment!"