[He falls silent at that, not wanting to confirm one way or the other. He feels like he doesn't have a choice but to try. How else would they have the power to go up against the Regent directly?]

I'm well enough... the being saw fit to act preventatively. I was not injured badly, but at the cost of my body once again being changed by its infection. Worse than ever before.

I was... a fool to allow myself to be snared in such a way. If I had only been wiser, mayhap I would not have been so hard-pressed...