He had to admit: Lixi's recounting of the tale disturbed him. Not the story itself, though that was plenty disturbing, but the way that she was just able to laugh it off like it was nothing. Miah's statement about her wavering sanity rang in his head, and he was beginning to wonder just how crazy she had gotten.

Though, he supposed that she wasn't the only one who found a sort of sick pleasure in looking back on moments that he could have very easily died and managed to beat the odds. However, the seed had been planted in his mind that perhaps Lixi was not in possession of all her faculties since meeting him.