Sadde scratches her head. "Do people not want to cheat death because he wanted to do it, or was he already weird by those standards before? There's a lot of context to this war, I should probably, like, read a book about it or something, except it ended a couple of months ago so maybe there aren't any complete books about it yet?

"And, er, I don't know if I can turn into a five-year-old. I've never really tried. It feels like I should be able to, if I can turn various parts of my body into animal parts I see no reason why I shouldn't turn into a five-year-old. But well, I guess I ought to try this not-here, maybe in the shower when I won't have robes getting too large - and too small, I'll definitely try to go all grown up."