[The problem is, is that he understands, and that is a very uncomfortable thought for him, too. This is surely where this weird bout of sympathy is coming from.]
It was all I could do, since this disgusting moon situation has robed me of even more of my magic.
[If not, perhaps there would have been something to save. Perhaps that Fool would not have gotten into that situation to begin with, it's hard to say.]
You're lucky my connection to the beholders hadn't been severed with it, of course.
[This is a very round about way of saying "You're Welcome." He goes rummaging through the cabinets like he lives here. Sets a kettle on the stove.]
...Better to have found something than nothing at all.
[For all that Silent Salt had wanted Shadow Milk dead once, that desire has been sapped from him. Acknowledging that he had been complicit in the other Cookie's corruption, and thus in the corruption of the remaining virtues, had altered everything. And while that did not mean he forgave Shadow Milk for what came after, it had cast everything into a far different light.
In any case, he knows he was lucky, just as he knows both he and Elder Faerie were likely unworthy of any kindness offered by Shadow Milk. They had both bound the Beast, after all.
But he does not say this. He simply shakes his head.]
I do not know if I agree. Had I been able to salvage something of him, perhaps. But... anything else would have perpetuated the curse. It was almost cruel to find him like that.
[But there isn't any sort of malice or vitriol in those words. He had been able to confirm there was nothing. That had to be enough.]
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It was all I could do, since this disgusting moon situation has robed me of even more of my magic.
[If not, perhaps there would have been something to save. Perhaps that Fool would not have gotten into that situation to begin with, it's hard to say.]
You're lucky my connection to the beholders hadn't been severed with it, of course.
[This is a very round about way of saying "You're Welcome." He goes rummaging through the cabinets like he lives here. Sets a kettle on the stove.]
...Better to have found something than nothing at all.
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[For all that Silent Salt had wanted Shadow Milk dead once, that desire has been sapped from him. Acknowledging that he had been complicit in the other Cookie's corruption, and thus in the corruption of the remaining virtues, had altered everything. And while that did not mean he forgave Shadow Milk for what came after, it had cast everything into a far different light.
In any case, he knows he was lucky, just as he knows both he and Elder Faerie were likely unworthy of any kindness offered by Shadow Milk. They had both bound the Beast, after all.
But he does not say this. He simply shakes his head.]
I do not know if I agree. Had I been able to salvage something of him, perhaps. But... anything else would have perpetuated the curse. It was almost cruel to find him like that.
[But there isn't any sort of malice or vitriol in those words. He had been able to confirm there was nothing. That had to be enough.]
Perhaps I will take some tea.