It was hardly an unreasonable assumption for either of us. This place does hold more power than death. I was dead, before I came here.

[Lust shrugs. She's died twice now, it's no sore spot for her. And each death was simply another step on her journey, ending here, as she is now. Serpents are symbols of rebirth, after all.]

And people return. My current intended vanished and returned. No, it played on our fears. It knew what would damage us, that's what it wanted. The other things I saw...they were frightening things. Upsetting things. It simply got creative. I'm not easily upset, and I don't think you are, either.

[She's quiet a moment, never very comfortable with emotions, but relaxed and loosened by the herbed wine.]

I'm sorry. About your wife.