[Kieren makes a face. Naive he might be, but he has learned lessons. Trusting hearsay isn't top on his list of things to do, especially on a ship whose sole purpose is housing and redeeming criminals. So where did this rumor originate? Who actually remembers their deaths, and who doesn't?]

[It matters to Simon. So, all of a sudden, it matters to him, too, this thing he'd barely thought about before.]

They're almost all alive like that. I think, anyway. At some point it . . . gets hard, I think, to know what's true and what someone told you. But the ones who remember dying - will they be more reliable, do you think, their stories?

[He hesitates, remembering something else.]

Did you get one of the pamphlets? With the death toll on it?