... Oh, so it was among my own characters I had to kill someone off?

Oh, thank god. That's a million times easier. I thought for a moment I had to write a death scene for Lloyd Irving, my childhood hero. That's a labor I don't think I would ever have been able to complete. Killing my OWN favorite character? ... With absolute pleasure. I could write one where I kill each and every single one of them. In fact, killing my own characters excites me. If I had to kill Lloyd, though? No, that would have broken me. This labor got infinitely easier all of a sudden. Phew.

Now to try to figure out who's my favorite character.