"Tell me about it. I can't catch a break. But, at least the food's better this time." Silver linings. His sanity is built atop them.

"I met a guy once who was a sort of energy vampire. He operated in a lot of the same ways. Minus the Earth obsession." Maldis doesn't have family, does he?

"So, I take it we all have to put up with being toys in his sandbox until...what? Do people ever get to leave?"