[A pre-carnival Silver wouldn't have sat around for this. He wouldn't have had the patience or the maturity to deal with Alois and his games. But nowadays, he found the walls he'd once had between him and others weren't quite as impenetrable as they used to be. Some small part of him wanted a little pointless conversation.

He really loathed it.]

Yeah, well, nobody felt sorry for me when I was suckered into this place. And I bet it wasn't any different for you.