"I don't wish to escape," the Yiling Patriarch corrects him. He does glance back, however, pausing with surprise as he sees the severe scars. His pet is such a strange and complex mystery, overlapping layers of a puzzle.

"Why would I? What awaits me in that world up there? Why should I risk becoming one of those monsters for the chance to return to your human world? It is hardly as though I would fit in, looking as I do."