wait i remembered a couple of other things:
post napoleonic wars, a guy being convinced that gil is a vampire and breaking into his house to kill him (both gil and his bird sleeping too deeply, and not having dogs at the moment). the dude manages to stake gil, but when he is turning around to leave, gil revives and grabs him by the neck. either smashes his head around or strangles him or both. gil calms down enough to see what happened, and in between dying and reviving again, sends a note to the police with gilbird ("someone broke in and tried to kill me when i was asleep; i was only dead 2 seconds. i killed him. please come here. -mr. prussia") (maybe in the past he could've just get rid of the corpse but now he rather explain). when the cops arrive the door is open, gil is dead on the floor but scares the shit out of them when he revives once again. gil shows them the stake still in his chest and explains the bloody mess, and says, "now i can remove this." pulls out the stake before can be stopped. "fuck i should've done this in the bathroom, easier to cle..." (dies again). gets a free day, some people opine it should've been more but the king and co. don't care (hc again that just as some people are callous with reps, others have a soft spot for them). gil is like "i'm fine" but struggles to sleep during the next nights, afraid of this happening again and getting nightmares about this and other bad experiences. gets a dog or more.
