Ah, but you can't. You have to follow the script. There is a certain balance and order to things, my honored Lord. One cannot upset them, can one?

[Curious held tilt, glancing away from the rocks momentarily.] In what way would you kill me, if you could? I've been told recently there's quite the variety. Would I die heroically, comically, ironically, slowly, suddenly, disgustingly, charmingly... [There was another, but it has slipped his mind. This isn't uncommon.]

The truth of it, really, would that I not die at all, but that is not my role.