[She doesn't answer for a long moment, knowing if she keeps denying anything, he'll catch her in a lie. He already has. But how to tell him without unleashing frustration and anger is another thing altogether.

She has to be careful with him.]

...The natural order of things doesn't always apply here. You have to know that. We don't age here and...

[She swallows thickly, knowing her next words just won't go over well, no matter how she says them.]

...When we die, we don't stay dead.