"One of those is a lot more fun than the other two."

"Yes, well, you need to have sex to continue the species regardless."

"Only because of the whole dying thing."

Zoe sure isn't planning on having any children.

"Everyone except Azathoth dies."

"Did you know that ants kill fifteen humans a year? I find this a very interesting statistic."

"If you die too, where do you get off complaining about me being too mortal?"

Is she the ant in this metaphor? Is he? Isn't he supposed to herald or harbinge or something for Azathoth? Something other than killing it?

"When you hit your fifth billion years of existence humans will also seem annoyingly mortal to you."

"At that scale I'm flattered you're even talking to me."

"You're very good at acrobatics."

"Thank you, I work very hard."

"Go talk to your friends, I think the nice human wants to read your mind."

"Talk to you later."

And Zoe rejoins the conversation. Nobody notices, because this is so normal, and it is very normal that Inaaya didn't bother to read Zoe's mind, why would she have done that?

"What's your goal in telling us this?"

"That you'll have more information to save the world with? That we'll have more information to save the world with? That in general the people who are trying to stop the Mouth from drowning the world in Nectar will collectively have more resources with which to do that? That I can stop juggling four layers of lies all the time?"

"Savitree," Inaaya says, "is trying to kill the Thing with a Thousand Mouths."

ARGH.

AARRGGHHH.

Mordred's just going to wait for Joan and Mariam to stop making that face before he says anything.

"We're trying to identify for certain who it is so we can understand how to cast it out and send it home."

"That's why we've been traveling around the world; we've been investigating sites that we believe may be related to the Thing with a Thousand Mouths."

"You should come to Bangkok and look at our notes."

Inaaya this is Mariam's job because she's good at it and has heard of the concept of not trusting people.

Inaaya this is Mariam's job because she's good at it and has heard of the concept of not trusting people.

"Doesn't Savitree... have a Mouth?"

"Have you ever tried to fund an international archaeological expedition?"

"It's expensive."

"So, what, she's selling Nectar as a necessary evil or something?" Oswald does not buy this t b q h but what does he know about Savitree.

"Yes. And-- you have to be smart and quick and driven, if you want to kill a god."

"Bangkok Nectar's not safe but it's safer. If you want to murder someone it's not you."

Hrm.