"I do not need rest. I have done rather enough of that in my months here on the train."

In the times between when Elidibus and Pahja were making demands of his time in order to do some mission or another, of course, which was not as often as it might well seem from his sour attitude. It is simply who he is, despite the happiness that he feels from being so close with Hythlodaeus again.

There is nothing that might contain that joy, especially not from someone who has always read him as well as his partner.

"I will follow your lead. I know a little more of this place, true, but altruism is hardly my forte."