"You can fire Death? Wha- how- y'know what, don't even bother. I don't really want to know the explanation for that." She laughed. "Though I've probably worshipped that god of hangovers a time too many myself."
"So, you're telling me you've got this whole list of everyone in your world and how and when they're going to die in your head? That must be awful." Dona could only imagine knowing when everyone in her life was going to die, especially her friends and family. "Not immortal, not exactly. He has some trick. He's never really explained it, just that he has a trick to change his face and manage to live a little longer. I mean, he is 904. I'm not sure what good finding him will do, actually, if he's just as stuck as us. But I'd feel better with him at my back than I would all alone, you know? If both of us are on it, I'm sure we can come up with something."