I was quite shaken and upset and one of the kids asked me , " Is she going to die ? " and , trying not to start crying , I answered , " No , she's not , " hoping that it was really true . Okay , so , very recently I was thinking about that and sort of wishing that I had turned to the kid and said , in a not - quite - menacing way , " Every soul will taste death . " Hahahaha ! 
Question: Why did the writer say " no , she's not " to the kid ?
Because they didn't want to upset the kid .