She went down quietly, glaring at him and struggling despite the pain. Her eyes flickered with fear as the emptiness came undone around her. Now that it actually got down to it she didn't want to die, she wanted to go back to Gauig and be with her sister.

Her lips moved, and she began whispering a prayer hurriedly, that petered out in half a line, she had never bothered learning the prayer you were meant to say as you died, she had never planned on dying. She hoped the effort was enough.

At least he told the truth, in the end it barely hurt at all.