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“If you stare into the abyss for long enough, the abyss stares back at you, right? That’s how it goes?” Dorian continued his chatter. “You know, we’ve been here for quite a while, well, ‘we’ meaning me, and I’m already feeling a pang of guilt for sealing you away. There probably won’t be a second time, but still! By the way, if you had asked me to let you go, I think I would have eventually given in. That’s probably the positive side of human nature: despite all our flaws, we never stop naively hoping that somewhere in the world there is hope for change. But we always look for it in others, not in ourselves. What a twist! … But I’m glad you didn’t do that. It’s easy to deceive a simple human like me, but to remain true to yourself, saying: ‘I’ll break free sooner or later and kill everyone,’ even after a thousand years, that’s impressive. I’ve already changed my beliefs three times this week. So, I’m still glad that we met like this. This memory is definitely better than falling asleep in a mushroom cave or being crushed under a pile of rubble. And I’m getting hungrier and hungrier…”