"Hmm. Well, I suppose the system must work. It exists, after all." A dubious tone is clear in her voice; people making rules have not, in her experience, made them well or sensibly. All those laws about having to be sixteen before you do such-and-such, for example.

"Well, that's all right then. Being dead is a silly thing to worry about if it doesn't affect someone at all, now isn't it?"