I've lived through my fair share of horrors, but this ... this is something else.

[ Maybe it's the nature of them, the strange magic compounded with the very real effects of the nightmare-world bleeding into each other. And for a week straight, feeling helpless with a group of other like-minded refugees whom he couldn't do a goddamned thing for --

Well. It's a mix of things.

He reaches for a dirty bowl. ]

Something stronger than tea would be appreciated. Thanks, Claire. [ He starts to scrub at the ceramic. ] What about you?