Matthew shoots Gil a faintly puzzled look - as far he knows, no one was ever talking about killing Hermit. Imprisoning him, yes. Dead? Not so much. In fact if anything the impression he got was that, by the strange rules that make up the Arcana, Devil and Lovers needed him to still be alive.

"Was anyone trying to kill Hermit?" they wonder. "But I...understand, yes. We know that some things are more important. But I'm mortal. You're not. I mean, you do a good job of trying to pass as one, sure. But you're still ideas and idioms given a functioning personality. It's not exactly clear whether you can act outside your own idiom, even when it's what you need to do. Even if you want to."