"Ooh. I will wait until you have caught enough to decide."

"How exactly are you doing that, anyway?"

"...It's kind of creepy, but I'll tell you if you want!"

"Yeah, tell me!"

"Ooh, huh. And you can just sense that?"

"Yeah. Well - sorta. I kinda found it out when I tried to drown myself back in Thiyec," he sighs, and then he scoops a final fish.

"You did what now?"

"Okay, so, that's good, but you were trying to drown yourself, like, choking dying drown, before you found that out?" Patience asks, getting up to follow him.

"...Sort of? It's complicated. I was trying to see what happened. The idea being that I'd come out either dead or really knowing I was prime."

"...I'm not getting it."

"Yeah. I know. I'm not sure it's something that people who aren't me can get," he says. "Even Kiri had a lot of trouble. It's just - I really, really didn't want to come back, when she showed up in Thiyec to get me. I would've liked drowning better. And, mm... failing to drown was the only thing I could think of that might help change my mind. I dunno if I can explain why, exactly. I just needed a really big push."

"I'm glad you're okay."

"Thanks," he says, smiling. "Me too."

"I wonder if Kiri would've even told me if you'd drowned."

"No idea."

"I guess I'd have to ask her. What are you gonna do to the trout?"

"Things," he says, mysteriously. "Tasty things."

"Well, I'm excited."

"Excited is an appropriate way to be when I'm cooking for you!"

Patience beams.