"Here? In this place? I am but a traveler, the same as you! A human like yourself would sooner drown and be dragged into the depths, another curse upon a thousand others, sooner than find your proper way! And if you've such fondness for my accomplice, I assume you would rather not add your death upon all the others."

He laughs again, a ringing sound, in a place that seems to have no walls or proper ceiling. There are things, in the distance, moving around wetly and slowly, that go still at the sound.