He snorts again, making a sound that's like the beginning of a laugh? "There will be, but I know I can survive it. That's the most important thing, especially at the end of all this."

He might not have asked about it, but he's definitely interesting, his boots shifting on the ground as he leans forward, getting closer to Luka again.

"It was nice," he says after a beat. "Manicured. It was a garden, like you all do your gardens. It was surrounded by cliffs, someplace high up. I don't know if it was this mountain or somewhere else. There was a huge... huge rock, and Twelve was on top of it, meditating. She was big too. I didn't get to see it for very long. The monster today, she got scared that I was there and we ended up in front of the hospital." He trails off there. Luka knows the rest of that story, more or less.

"The Wizard brings us to a farm on an alien planet. It's beautiful. There's a lake with purple water."