[They were married thirty years; he imagines it'd have been difficult to miss. Plus, he's pretty sure her death was common knowledge in his world, quite publicly associated with his own descent into madness - and that's what he'd feared most, hearing that he'd killed her again. If her name's not known, it probably isn't true.]
She wouldn't have put up with someone like that, anyway.
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[They were married thirty years; he imagines it'd have been difficult to miss. Plus, he's pretty sure her death was common knowledge in his world, quite publicly associated with his own descent into madness - and that's what he'd feared most, hearing that he'd killed her again. If her name's not known, it probably isn't true.]
She wouldn't have put up with someone like that, anyway.