...I see.

[She knows it either must have cost him something to speak it, or else it's something he lives with the knowledge of every day. Probably both.

She smiles softly. She has seen death, felt the threads of someone's life cutting short. But she knows the one truth in those deaths.

She pulls her hand back, and folds her hands in her lap.]

Death is not to be feared if you have lived an honorable life.