You have offered me no true reassurances, you realize? You are clearly so changed from those days I know so well. You likely don’t even realize, the change has been ever so slow. Regardless, what purpose have I to be cautious? I am already dead, my previous purpose laid to rest with whatever may remain of me.

Could the discomforts here truly measure up to the torments I have already faced?

[ Hythlodaeus eats a cookie whole, swallowing it easily in a casual power move.]

Have you any true objections now? We work towards my second death and the resurrection of our people, so let us be about it.