How to Fool the Enpranched Reader

One of my favorite character deaths in fiction, and you can argue that it doesn't count because she brings him back in that book is Miles Werkosigens Death in Mirror Dance. And when we get that character back, it does not feel cheap. It feels like the sort of thing that only science fiction could pull off. I think actually one of the things you mentioned is POV that frequently the character who is killed up doesn't get a POV and everybody else does. How well this works is going to depend on how enpranched your reader is. Or so you can give them payoffs that a less enpranced reader wouldn't get are a skill into itself.