Do you even think that's true? For all we know they're just telling us everything we want to hear so that we'll cooperate with them. [Though he does believe the Seelie are pretty set on destroying virtually everything because hello, Caer Scima's gone.] I want to know the truth. But I don't know who to ask anymore.

[But there's a slow nod. Awful's a good word for it, yes.] It was starting to get better back home though. [But if what Joshua's saying is true, then maybe he was just starting to scar over and then arriving in this place tore the wound back open.] Doesn't it bother you to know that you're sending back some people but there are other people who'll never get to see their family or friends again?