"No, no," Gyre tries to interrupt him when he asks about killing the monsters, his voice harder and sharper then it has been in awhile. This is something he's clearly passionate about, his entire body straightening as if he'll fuckin fight Garrot right now to keep him from hurting another one of them.

"They can talk. They're people. Luka just believed what the Protector told him, but I told him what I know," he says quickly, trying to get back to his original point. "It's all a ritual. The monsters have to be defeated, but they don't have to die for it to work."