... Okay so that's happening. She is going to... Keep stirring.While he does weird maths. Yes.

Eventually he says, "Probably like half, actually, in countries with widespread Internet access. I'd ask Masozi about Malawi but I don't think he'd know. --Tell me more death facts!"

"There's a poison that makes it much, much easier for your nerves to turn on, and harder to turn off, so you spasm all the time until you die."

"Awwww, that sounds like it would be kinky but actually it's just horrifying. No fair."

"--people dying in general is kind of horrifying? Even dying of old age."

"Dying of old age is really horrifying and not in the fun way like that one disease where all of your muscles slowly turn into bones."

"That one's fun? ... I guess it is cool..."

"Yeah! They have to be really careful because if you ever get surgery your muscles turn into bones faster!"

"--That is a cool problem to have."

"I know! I think more body parts should randomly turn into other body parts. I want to find out what happens if my spleen is suddenly my elbow."

"I wouldn't recommend finding a spell for that." The soap mixture is now kind of gloopy. "It's probably time to put this in the mold."

He starts to put it in the mold. "What poison is it?"

"Strychnine. It's used as a rat poison."

"That sounds really unpleasant for the rats."

"I don't think any of them are pleasant for the rats?" She is going to restrain herself from talking about the superwarfarins. "It's hard to kill something without it hurting."

"Maybe if you do it really fast? I think when I explode the mals it doesn't hurt them very much. If they're the sort of thing that gets hurt. --I don't want to hurt my cockroaches when I kill them."

Aww, that's sweet of him. "If you do it fast enough, I guess they wouldn't have a chance to hurt."

"But I've also got to do it in a way that leaves their bodies usable afterward. I was kind of planning to wait for them to die of natural causes."

"I heard if you make insects cold enough, that kills then painlessly. And alcohol does not hurt too bad."

"Do you think anyone will drink the drowning-cockroaches alcohol? I guess if you're desperate enough."

"I probably wouldn't, but--" it's not like she planned to do underage drinking in the death school?

"A connoisseur. A woman of taste. Only the highest-quality moonshine for you."

"--I really wouldn't know how to tell."

"Oh, yeah, I keep forgetting that everyone else doesn't have a me to get them in trouble! Previously everyone I talked to had a me to get them in trouble."

"I guess if you were in an enclave, it would all be people used to you getting them into trouble."