"No, not that it was a superstition. I just... you were so young at the time. I hadn't realized all that had to happen as a natural consequence of She Who Thirsts." He's silent for a long moment.

"It doesn't matter if there's any hope," he says, and now he sounds quite grim. Determined. It's a side that he rarely shows, because so few people ask him about it. "If there is a way to save it, I will. If there isn't, then I'll still have fought to the last to grasp that future."