"There were some that were fighting off anyone that came near. Who slept on their graves to try and prevent anyone from seeing their deaths. I've still yet to discover if they died in some embarrassing fashion or it was something dishonorable they wanted no one to know about." So there would have been an opportunity for the Soldier to prevent it, but it seemed excessive to Kuai. He was more upset about seeing others than he had been about them seeing his own.

"It was unsettling, and probably best to be missed. Unfortunately we now have.. this." He gestures around at the hands that he can see, and assumes the other man is seeing some version of it himself.