Being dead had its advantages, but Severus was constantly paranoid that someone at the Battle of Hogwarts had seen his departure. The fact that his body had never been found fuelled conspiracy theories, but it never resulted in outright belief—just a tiny, niggling doubt in the back of people’s minds, a split seam of curiosity. And yet he had no doubt that if a very determined Death Eater sympathiser wanted to track him, they could.