"There's a funny amount of overlap." He leans back in his chair and begins drumming his fingers against his knee, an absent little tap-tap tap-tap. "The squids— while odd enough to merit at least a bit of interest, if you ask me— are symptoms of a much broader incomprehensibility."

The right question for Never Mind. He has very little he'd like to ask Never Mind and quite a lot he'd like to do to Never Mind, personally; if the creature ever wanted civility from him, it wouldn't have strung up her body as carrion for birds.

All he says is, mildly: "I've an interest in Mariana, now you mention it. As best I can tell, reincarnation is her domain. Might get me some answers for the squid thing."