Steven chuckles. "I believe you," he says. "As one awful fake to another. I'd have liked to see it—to see you in your element." His hand is still stroking Hythlo's hair. "If I promise to do nothing bad to it, if you can sleep in your true body... can I come and see it? If you dream of it the way Hades did, I mean. I'd swear a pledge to keep the dream sweet. There are pledges for that too, you know."