[Susan, who was used to this sort of rambling, didn't comment as the grey woman continued on. Besides, even if she'd wanted to, there was little to correct. Scorpion pits, if anything, were a time-honored human tradition.]

Yes, that's always the trouble isn't it?

[Susan had no answer for that question, unfortunately. The closets could provide quite a lot of something, but she couldn't hold with magical scorpions. Something about that just violated the spirit of the thing.]

A crossbow would be effective and efficient, but not very Theatrical. [She frowned slightly.] Definitely less messy than beheading, at any rate.