...mm. I try not to keep much from Beau, but I'm not sure that hearing that would do her any good. I'll keep it to myself for now.

[he shakes his head, still just sort of lingering somewhere in the room so he doesn't get goop on anything.]

You're probably right about it being at least partly a lie, if that room really is the source or something else important to this place. But I'm not... used to things like this having an easier answer, either. Things like restoring souls, pulling off this kind of separation-- they have costs.

I asked master Blue if they had any idea whether we should expect it to be similar here, and they really didn't know-- but they said they're both very hard to kill, so I don't think we need to worry about them when it comes to separation. I know some of us will be concerned, but...

[but they're going to need to worry about everyone here first. priorities.]