Klaus thought about it for a moment, then gave him a wry smile. "It's hard to think about being any other way, now. Some of the younger ones can flip a switch in their brains, turn their humanity, their emotions off. They get guilt-stricken and the like. But that ability goes away the older we get. And then..." He shrugged. "Sometimes it might be nice not to have to feel it all, but when you don't...it's like being dead."