"It is safe," she tells him. "It will be a century at least before he is flesh again, years after that before he remembers who he is. I will take steps before we leave, and time will do the rest for us."

She would be glad that she is giving him what he craves, even if he only learned of that craving recently.

"And greedy though I may be, we can not carry off ALL of these coins. That's what acquaintances with a dislike of Heka are good for." Her expression is mischievous, wicked, gleeful.