"Everyone's gotta die someday, and the entrance fee to life's most exclusive gated community is a bit high for some of us, slugger." The moral price of it, rather. Alastor was frankly convinced he could no more have lived a moral and decent life than he could have learned how to fly.

Back then.

"Deal's a deal." It was a double edged statement. The obvious, he'd not be turning that deal over.

And the unstated one. A deal was a deal, both sides would keep it.