"Murder is never funny to people who are mortal. Except on the Barge, we don't come back from it." And Taura, for one, loves being alive. "Nobody will be around to laugh at your jokes if you kill them. And bodily autonomy is very important to some people. Especially when they've been denied it before."

Taura, who was quite literally property for the first sixteen years of her life, her body dedicated to someone else's science experiment, feels very strongly about bodily autonomy.

"If you're trying to tell whether people will find a joke funny, a good guideline is whether it will hurt them or make them feel powerless." Those are the unfunny punch lines.

"And if you're planning on changing your haircolor every time you change your mood, you'd better take a couple colors." She'll let him leave the spa with the dye bottles if he wants to and hope it doesn't backfire in the form of practical jokes. Bleach is staying here, though. "If you need to lighten your hair in between, call me to come get the bleach."