The right path, the wrong path, a matter of perspective! Yet the just path, ah, there is what I think is right, and in that I agree. It's never easy, but when you don't make to carry on that path alone, the burden lightens. So I hope you walk with good friends by your side!

( The mention of the grain has him frown, and he considers. Dark. Going dark. The number of things which circle around a certain darkness, waters that can be used to raise grain and yet which pollute everything, the farmers and their extractions in fields... )

Mah, this grain, when you say it was going dark, what did it look like? Was there any fluid? A little like water, thicker though, like tar?

( And a pause: )

Spicy meat! Spicy soup, spicy stew, spicy vegetables, spice. The kind that burns your tongue good and leaves you feeling extra alive!