Cor, I'll give you that... always good to have someone with something familiar round, I'll tell you. There was a bloke I spoke with a while ago who's actually a familiar face.

[ And yes, the boy latches on pretty quickly. ]

Explanations are fine. The only thing that's out of the question are the how's and why's. Can't change the course of someone's death and all that. S'just not how the world works. You sound like a sharp one. Wager you've prolly heard the fairy tales about Death and all? The bloke with the scythe and the cloak?