It is...all right. It is simply that I have worked very hard on becoming a vampire who can live relatively harmlessly among humans, and I don't...I do not even know what I would do were I a mortal man for good.

[Now he finally does start to look hopeful.]

Well...separating me from the Hellbeast did not destroy me when the Admiral did it temporarily. And I...remember...

[He looks embarrassed, even a little ashamed.] My love of slaughter is magnified in that form tremendously. Unnaturally.

I'd be willing to take the risk. Between you and that monk I now have enough hope that faith is a possibility again. You should not be apologizing to me, I should be thanking you. And telling you his story, by the way.