"Thank you."

It's one less thing to carry around, at least. And if they can get this ritual right, then the shadowy entity that wears a crown and his brother's lifeless face won't find him in his dreams tonight or ever again. Speaking of which...back to the grindstone with them.

"Now I can hurt it by staring at all these books instead," he jokes wryly, hunching in an exaggerated manner over the tome spread open on the table.