[It might help if she did. Richie isn't unintelligent but he is rash, and has the unfortunate tendency to spout off before he thinks.

Her prognosis instills some sense of the bigger picture in him. He's difficult to kill because he's something more than mortal. Look at that! Just when you thought you'd never have something in common.]

Most things can. [He says this with such surety that for once, he doesn't need his vocal elastics to sound like an entirely different person.] The rules of the world you used to live in don't have to apply here. I don't believe in guarantees, but I don't believe in immortality either. Even that fucking dragon that came back from the dead. If it was impossible to take down when it's all rotted out, it must have been worse at its prime. But it did die. Everything has to. That's the rule.

[Staying dead, on the other hand...Well, let's not dwell on it.]