That is touching, in its way. People are usually kind enough when they hear that someone has died, more so when it is much of your family, but some of it is saying the expected words. Iggy, though, seems to really feel something. A sweet boy.

"That may well be true." He knows it isn't. It isn't Jon's way to lie, but I have been dead; there is nothing after you die; it's like a dreamless sleep is a step too far for most conversations, and something he's rarely willing to share.

So he says, "It's kind of you to say so. Sometimes I wish one of them would turn up here -- from before they were killed. I met two queens here who have been dead for almost two hundred years where I come from. One was just a young girl with years left to live; the other was older, but no less alive. Anyone you'd like to see like that?"