He feels not just his mortality, which he had felt since he was twenty-three and bleeding out of a hole in his side, but his age; when he visits the children of Wammy's House, with their sharp, mischievous eyes; some studious, some playful, some lost in their own rules and their own world, he sees L everywhere and nowhere. It is like calling on ghosts

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Down in the basement where all truths go to hide, a suspect will die of a heart attack. A little amusement, a private joke known only to two. Ryuk laughs enough for both of them

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