[There is some small relief. Just a flash. Knowing it hadn't been exactly true to reality doesn't change that it's all echoes of her real past.]

...Is that where you passed away?

[They very much did set it on fire. And Mizu may have been fighting through it to find a different demon altogether. Could have swam through the tunnel with the tiny bones (brothers and sisters?), dodged the pitfalls and took poisoned soup in a silent kitchen. Whether she had as hard a hallucination as they did, he can't say. These trips tend to drip nightmares into a grounded, if false, reality. It happened last time. It happened this time. A Clown, a Spider. Eddie, twice.

Doesn't change that she was still treated like a goddamn pariah. Maybe there was a price on her head.]

Don't be. [Raspy, earnest. Ashamed.] I'm sorry. Those are...it's the kind of thing I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. To put a cliche to it.

But I mean it. They way they... [That maid. Callous as a crooked rock, didn't care what happened to the kid. That "thing." He didn't let Adolphe kill her, but he can't say he feels too sorry for leaving behind. He sighs, ragged.]

It's one thing to know, another thing to see. You deserved better.