He can't help it, he scoffs. "Adam, I've died twice already. How many things have happened to us that are utterly unacceptable? And yet here we are, safe as life." A hand makes a grand, sweeping gesture around them, as if to acknowledge the real meaning of his words. Safe as all this, a cave far from home where monsters occasionally try to eat them and so do their nightmares.

"The unacceptable happens every day. Why should I be any different? How can you cheat death when you don't know how it's coming? And why wouldn't you tell me? Maybe I could, I don't know, assist in this plan to keep me alive?"