Death gets angry, then, his blue eyes hard with cold fury. "No, I never expected you to complete each Jaunt successfully. There are always stumbling blocks in the beginning. But I certainly did not expect to have to be the ones to punish you for a rebellion the likes of which was not in Fortune's rules. Furthermore, I never expected Moebius to be a walk in the park. In fact I never wanted a capital punishment for you lot. It is only by happy accident that you Travelers didn't descend into psychosis after the fact. The collective memory loss of the veterans is the only blessing to come from that round, a round which I despise having my name attached to, frankly."

He rubs a bony temple, then, his anger slowly dimming to irritation. "You know my kind better than most. You know what makes me tick better than most. Do you think I wanted any of that to occur? Do you think I revel in that kind of butchery?"