"I'm sorry, did you take that as an invitation to brag some more? Because your contrived and pretentious boasting is rather unimpressive and frankly, I would not like to waste not one more minute on your unrealistic descriptions and useless blathering." He could be doing so much more within his last moments. Telling the woman who screwed him over she was the reason he was so bad off. Telling his father that he had failed his son. Telling Jack that he hoped she would be able to sruvive this world in a way he was not meant to. He only hoped she found the only thing of him left of any value, the watch, his one last valuable, hidden in his breast pocket. He only hoped that Jack, his only survivng family who could be found, would find the watch in her hands.
"You may have faced death but you set out to prevent it, insisting fear. I, however, welcome it. You are going me a great service, sir, and I dearly hope.. that you rot in hell for it." He closed his eyes, turning toward Ne'Os and giving him a better shot at him. He closed his eyes, ready.. There was a flash of green light that pervaded his closed lids, and the spell rammed into his body, and for a second.. beautiful, pure, wonderful life filled Elliot full, every emotion, smell, sensation at once.
For the first time in a long time, Elliot felt fully, completely alive.
And then he fell over, dead.