[A pause. She isn't glaring at him exactly, but there's a defiant look in her eyes.]
It certainly wasn't how I expected to die.
[If anything, it'd have been the gallows, but even that had seemed nonapplicable to her. After all, she was always just one step ahead of the fools around her. Or so she thought. Rather bitterly she continues:]
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It certainly wasn't how I expected to die.
[If anything, it'd have been the gallows, but even that had seemed nonapplicable to her. After all, she was always just one step ahead of the fools around her. Or so she thought. Rather bitterly she continues:]
But I suppose that's what almost everyone says.