[ His grin is sharp and bright and eerie, his eyes burning red. ] You're right about that. I knew exactly what I was doing.

[ That comment about a death wish gets a short laugh. He's easy with laughter today. Normally he'd be easy with smiles too, but it's easy to smile when your face is a skull, so that probably doesn't count. ]

Why wouldn't I? It's already happened. I have the luxury of courting it.

[ Well, courting some things, anyway. Some people. One person, possibly, maybe.

Besides, there's worse things than death, he almost says, and then he doesn't, because it's a nice night and he doesn't want to ruin it with talk like that. Talk that could lead to something more painful. ]