"If he truly wanted to keep it from you, perhaps he doesn't want the two of us together. Though I can't imagine why. We haven't exactly posed much of a threat to him thus far." But he doesn't seem to have any great desire to think in circles, either, because he simply sighs and falls silent.

Then, after a few seconds, "He came and talked to me. In my cage. It was the first time he's said anything to me directly. He didn't even stoop so low as to speak to me when he killed me for real."