The castle will do its level best to kill me. Again. While trying to drive me insane. Again. This would be the... fourth time, I think? No, third. One of those was a different castle... anyway, this would make the third time I've fought the castle's heart. There's only so much it can throw at me I haven't already seen from it.

[He leans back against the back counter.] There is, of course, also the possibility he can be made to see reason without violence, for once. But I'm not going to put my bet on that scenario.