I'm sure you'd be shocked to hear that it's a long and somewhat complicated story.

[She's also pretty sure they don't normally end in attempted murder -- but to be fair, the attempted murder had happened long after she'd considered her relationship with Erik to be over -- his being held captive under the Pentagon had kind of cramped their style early on.

She's somewhat relieved to hear that there's no solid scientific explanation for what happens to them when they die. Maybe it really is just some sort of odd magic, like the rest of this place -- and that probably reduced the chances of this place putting all sorts of weird stuff in them while they were dead, right?

She's certainly not going to bring up that cheery thought.]

Well, like you said -- it could just be some really powerful magic. Things like that are beyond our control right now.

[With his arm around her shoulders, she's happy to settle in against him with a fingertip casually tracing up his side.]