"Would ending one of us in private be too boring?" he asks, this time more directly to the Wizard than his companion. "It has to be more about the spectacle than anything, right? If you actually wanted to just win you could just be done with us from the beginning."

The rabbit still isn't expecting any real answers as his tone shifts from genuine curiosity to something more like desperation. "Though I suppose if there's some greater purpose behind why you have to do things this way, it must be something so far beyond our ken that it's pointless to even speculate..."

...Dammit. He was trying to look cool and interrogate her, but now he just sounds like a confused child.