[ there's a brief silence; this isn't the most cheerful of conversations, and the inevitable deaths of everyone he loves and cares about is particularly morbid and he'd really rather not think about that, especially—

—yeah, nope, not going to linger on that. ]

Did you know spiders have really short life cycles? Fortunately, I didn't inherit that trait, but it definitely put things into a slightly different perspective when I found out. [ found out, had a conversation with a spider. same thing. ] It's weird though, right? How different creatures have different existences, different experiences, different expectations... [ aka he doesn't want to live forever, but growing old would be pretty sweet, given his line of work. ] The eternal life thing isn't really my bag, but good for you guys though.

—But, uh, let's move on from the 'death is inevitable' conversation. Even if I kind of started it.