Rukia nods, slowly. The story's believable enough, if you ignore the Wizarding school aspects of it. She reasons that Susan must be the Discworld's equivalent of a shinigami, then, even if they probably don't use that terminology there.

She did her best to assure Susan, "I wouldn't have wanted to have stayed out of it, anyway. That wouldn't have been fair to you." She sighs. "Who were the people that wanted something from you?" she wonders aloud, although she has her own suspicions already.