[He reflexively smiles, darkly amused, at the first part. Now that's a sentence he can relate to. No one in their right mind would ever deliberately choose Kadoc at this point to save a world. But that aside—]

We passed Celliwig's trials. I heard we only passed because we weren't too good for them, or too bad. They take that kinda thing seriously. On top of that, something serious and unplanned came up with Arthur on a business trip to Celliwig, and as far as I can tell, they're impressed we managed to play both sides of that one too. They obviously won't cooperate with a united front.