Mort squeaks to get Thanatos's attention, and then he doesn't stop squeaking. It's hard to tell his mood by the tone of his squeaks, but they seem to be having their own side conversation (or one-sided conversation as Mort is doing the talking). That along with Persephone squeezing his arm keeps Thanatos from shifting away like he was nearly going to do.

"Not enough. He's too small," Thanatos says with hardly a glance. He's lost a lot of interest in the magazine because the whirlwind of thoughts in his head is just too distracting. Does he feel relieved? Disappointed? How is he to understand how he feels if there are so many things to consider and analyze? Thanatos doesn't even know what he should focus on if anything anymore.

And he knows some of what bothers him isn't Zagreus's fault. He didn't ask to come from a different point in time with all the difficulties related to that. They have all this time, and yet Thanatos feels like he's just waiting for something to become clearer.