"Oh. I take it something happened that is distressing you?" says Kuai, master of observation. He hadn't noticed anything out of the ordinary, but he hadn't really talked to Quentin, or seen him in a while.

"I certainly hope no one is going to trade in any of the friendly spirits. Those have been helping us. But should anyone kill or capture the green-eyed ones.. well those have earned what would become of them." Now that he says it he's actually considering that. Maybe they should go out there and capture one of them to study.

"You are not dying. We are already dead, what would you be dying of?"