"Something more important than that." He says with a flat seriousness that's rare for him, though there's no way for Curufin to know that.

But it immediately ebbs when Curufin suggests that anyone on the train would give a single solitary rat's ass if something happened to him.

"I am known to be a pillar of the community. I'm sure they'll be crushed." He says in a way that he truly doubts they'd care much at all. "All the people that care about me are living out their days braining zombies. Anyone here wouldn't even notice."