No, but then death is not the only end to one journey. [A faint, almost gone chuckle.] It is merely the start of another.

[The hairless apes -- these hoo-mans -- quite obviously breed, for here is a small version of one. Shifu is familiar with children, though more frequently he works with rabbits and swine.

He is also more familiar with children having a less sophisticated grasp of things. A prodigy, perhaps? Shifu takes it in stride -- he has seen (and trained) many prodigies in his time.]

They were not free with their answers. [A pause.] I had not, by their standards, earned them and so I have been meditating on it.