[Wizard is less conspicuous than a guy with a bizarre hairstyle and a monkey, but let's be real, it's only just -- and it's a low bar indeed in present and all current company. Anyway, his smile widens a little as he watches Simon watch him nervously.]

Hmm. "Performer" has a special meaning in this game, though, surely you know that.

[The monkey may indeed not know that. Still.]

Even creatures without a concept of death will still struggle atrociously at the very end. You would prefer, then, to see none of it coming?