[ He's stated his reasons, he says.

His reasoning is nonsense, Sandalphon wants to say. Instead, he huffs out a weary sigh. What a day this has become. ]

If you truly require energy to live [ And it seems he does. Nevermind how to define living for someone who claims he has died already and was brought back as...whatever he is. ] then I suppose I'm among the few best suited to sustain such a being.

[ If recovery from grievous injury was the worst of it, he can handle that. A mortal, he suspects, would struggle to endure being taxed to such a degree, when this world demands chroma from them as well. ]

But do not waste that by speaking so casually of your own destruction.

[ Why take measures to live only to immediately volunteer to die? ]