"It must have been," L agreed, when Light admitted that it had been exciting for him, as well. "I was never wrong, and my intuition actually stung when I was near you. I wondered how Kira could sleep with the knowledge of what he did, and I watched you sleep with that in mind. I thought about catching Kira, every waking moment... and I envisioned capturing you. I thought about..." L paused. It was true, that he had imagined his own hands wringing Kira's neck on those long, dark nights where he and Light had been chained together in the darkness.
"I died so quietly," L said, after a moment. "I always think back... to the sensation of feeling my blood still and my brain beginning to go numb. I was hardly aware that you were holding me... I'd never felt so alive before, isn't that strange? I don't think we're really aware of 'life' until it ends. We both thought that we'd go on forever, I think... and neither of us died like a Messiah."