"- Akibel Mowar," and now he's scared.

"I'm Timothy, this is Cam, if we were working for Melkor he'd have won a long time ago, Cam's an alternate universe version of you and we're trying to figure out what you're doing and why."

"...what is it that's easier if you're on fire."

"Stopping thinking."

"...why do you do that?"

"- because he can read memories -" Akibel is shaking, now.

"- oh."

"Makes sense now?"

"Yes. Akibel, having demonstrated that we have the ability to get you talking whether you like it or not will you talk to us if we let the potion wear off?"

"Yeah."

"- do you want me to get an antidote -"

"Are you going to be informative?"

"I'll answer like I do when you stage a rescue first."

"How's that?"

"I'll tell you what you already know."

"That's fine to start out, at least, assuming you mean you'll tell us what Melkor already knows. - means we should ask advance-directive-y things before the potion wears off, though -"

"Yeah. Are you suicidally inclined?"

"Sometimes."

"...are these right now the sort of conditions under which you are suicidally inclined."

"Yes."

"Skipped the potion because?"

"Suicide in hallucinations just ends them."

"Can you ever identify things as nonhallucinations in any way?"