Funny how-- we do all remember the part about him manipulating children? Or are we just agreeing to move past that.
[It was a really nice conversation! Which was the problem. Made him too sad to think about himself being dead again. Made him too sad to think about Harrow being dead and somehow in that river?]
[No, no. She was alive in the river, that's why she was being attacked by the dead. She should have clarified more details of that bummer situation.]
. . . I'm sure. [This conversation is a little harder, in a weird way. It feels like he wants to have it, so she has to, even though. Ugh. The future.] You mention her, a lot. [Not in any substantive way, just. Offhand, a lot.]
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[It was a really nice conversation! Which was the problem. Made him too sad to think about himself being dead again. Made him too sad to think about Harrow being dead and somehow in that river?]
... You'll like Jester. Everyone likes Jester.
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. . . I'm sure. [This conversation is a little harder, in a weird way. It feels like he wants to have it, so she has to, even though. Ugh. The future.] You mention her, a lot. [Not in any substantive way, just. Offhand, a lot.]