He might beam himself, then drop his gaze, the sunset light catching on his pale cheeks. "Thank you... and I shall need all the luck that I can get to begin anew," he says. "I'm... glad that we had this conversation, that you were there to listen to a man who's felt like he was going mad, but who might rather be going sane. As harrowing as it's been to be Sariel, as horrible as it's been working for Pride Records... I think it was the best thing that could happen, to free me from the prison I'd put myself into by the choices I made as Muraki."

He looks to the sunset. "One day ending so another may begin... Fitting... one life is ending, so that a new one may begin."