"No," Alastor answered without hesitation. "No, no, I'd much prefer they live in their peaceful afterlives with the impression of me they had before. None of them need to know the truth about the man who stalked the streets in the dead of the night and made people disappear."

He made a bit of a flourish with his hands to emphasize the last word. "The only ones who knew the truth about me in life all fell down here until I dispatched of the wretches a second and final time."