“Because I wanted to tell you what I’d inadvertently discovered the first time I killed you. That if I killed you, we both died, and the clock would essentially reset. We would be born into new lives and have another eighteen years before we were torn back to the Underrealm. And we could keep doing that forever. We wouldn’t have to reap anyone, nor would we ever go back to the hot coals, as long as we kept dying at the right time. No matter how much I resented you, it seemed a mutually beneficial solution.”
