It did sound sad, and Drifter's had a lot of experience with loneliness. But he's still feeling a little cagey on it. "Just don't get to the point ya drag around bits of her clothing for centuries. There are immortals back home that have done that kinda thing. Find a more honorable way to remember her."
Not being able to die at all doesn't sound like it's all that implausible to him.
"Better question." Not exactly less depressing, but a less personal thought exercise. "You got the choice to wish an asshole outa existence. Now, I know we probably got a different line-up of disreputables so lets give some general qualifiers. You got a tyrant who controls everyone in his country, allows only marriage based on tradition rather than love, burns books that go against him, murders anyone that speaks out against him, but everybody stays fed. Warm houses for everybody. Everybody's healthy. You got a warlord who obliterated thousands. Did a genocidal sweep of different countries. But if he hadn't? All the laws that happened after him that helped people, all the cures he came up with from his terrible research? The literature he spread under his rule? That wouldn't be around no more. Or a serial killer? Nothin' good can come of him. He's killed a buncha people based on 'em not bein' able to fight back. Acted like a sicko. But his top count is like, twenty. You spend this chance on him? You're gonna miss the chances to get rid of one of the other two.
"You can only pick one. Now wipe 'em out. Every breath they ever took."
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Not being able to die at all doesn't sound like it's all that implausible to him.
"Better question." Not exactly less depressing, but a less personal thought exercise. "You got the choice to wish an asshole outa existence. Now, I know we probably got a different line-up of disreputables so lets give some general qualifiers. You got a tyrant who controls everyone in his country, allows only marriage based on tradition rather than love, burns books that go against him, murders anyone that speaks out against him, but everybody stays fed. Warm houses for everybody. Everybody's healthy. You got a warlord who obliterated thousands. Did a genocidal sweep of different countries. But if he hadn't? All the laws that happened after him that helped people, all the cures he came up with from his terrible research? The literature he spread under his rule? That wouldn't be around no more. Or a serial killer? Nothin' good can come of him. He's killed a buncha people based on 'em not bein' able to fight back. Acted like a sicko. But his top count is like, twenty. You spend this chance on him? You're gonna miss the chances to get rid of one of the other two.
"You can only pick one. Now wipe 'em out. Every breath they ever took."