[Again, how enviable. Playing games like this without a care, using others as playthings - to anyone else, he knows it'd be awful. Part of him thinks it is awful, too; he doesn't like inflicting harm with his own two hands. (One hand. Shit, he hates that.) He'd be lying, though, if he said he didn't understand the impulse.]

[Of course, Qilby's not too happy he got caught up in it, but if there's something to be gained, or a mystery to be uncovered...]

[With a dry sort of humor:] I hate to think how boring it would be in this World of yours, if there were not someone like you to throw a wrench into the works.