"Mm -- any choice he could have made would be a bad one, or it wasn't really his... If he shot the sun, everyone else would probably die -- and if he took his kids back, it was only because the sun allowed it. I don't think I like stories like that -- about being helpless. Topical, though, considering..." He gestures around them, indicating Baedal.

He steps onto the train when it pulls up and sits, since it's quite a few stops from Mog Hill to Howl Barrow. "We're on the Dexter line," he comments idly, indicating the El Train map on the wall. Then: "The green one, they're all colour-coded. It's four stops, then we transfer to the blue line and go three more stops to Lich Setting. They tell you which stop is coming up before you get there." He's not sure, but from reading over the Network, he's sort of gotten the impression Shrieky might not be able to read, and counting stops and seeing colours might be easier for him.