"Given enough time, everyone turns into someone else. Sure we retain some of who we were, but just look at a child compared to an adult. At their core they are the same, but so much else about them has changed, could they be considered the same person? I think so, but others might beg to differ," he mused.

Of course, the question itself was an intriguing one. Hanekoma had learned that it was rare for someone to ask a question without some reason for doing so, and Larxene had just asked two very interesting questions in a row. Death, and the changes it brought, seemed to be on the young woman's mind.

Were Hanekoma a different man, he might press the issue to find out more, but that would go against his policy of letting others open up to him when they were ready to. He found you learned a lot more about someone when you listened to them, than when you tried to force a connection. It wasn't like he didn't have time.