[Come on, Marco, let him be optimistic here. It's been awful hard to maintain that tireless dedication to finding a silver lining here in Ryslig, but somehow he has.]

It wasn't the bugs that got me killed, it was one person takin' things too far. That's... that's on him, not us.

[Still, he should have been able to fight back. He should have been able to survive. Even with all the incredible power the Fourth has given him he couldn't fight off one angry minotaur. That's distressing, but he can address it later.]

Coulda done without Tate followin' me around for two weeks but...

[He trails off. He doesn't really have a 'but'. He's already haunted by his son enough without being literally haunted by his son.

At least it wasn't his ex-wife. That's something.]