There is a flaw with your position, Miss Maxwell. You are not my subordinate. That person is.

Regardless of what you might believe, or what the behavior of certain others might indicate, we Death Gods hold our station with a certain pride. If those owls have found a way to trick even us into accepting a false death, then we must find a way to see the truth behind the trick. For us, to be unable to tell the difference between the living and the dead is perhaps the single largest disgrace we could suffer.

I am curious, however. Why are you defending him? Certainly his nature has become evident to you by now.