Hell if I know, never thought about it that way. Their brains are fucked up, when they come back they hardly seem to remember a thing... Not that I ever had an extended talk with any of them.

[ It's a merciful gesture to let them die as humans, but he would not want to spend much time next to sentient guignols. It reminded him a little too much of what he could have easily become. Although sometimes, in dark corners of his mind, he wonders what the countess would have told him had she been fully herself back then... it probably wouldn't have been any different. ]