For a long moment the albino just stares Eric down, his gaze searching and scrutinizing for any hint that the other could be lying to him. Humpty Dumpty wants- no needs- to believe that he isn't though, because if he really did die then hearing that he died fruitlessly without even completing his work would be crushing. That desperate need for vengeance, for other people to understand him, had been the only thing holding together for so many years that learning it had been in vain would be too much.

After that silence stretches on he finally steps back again, expression unreadable.

"No one would have acted without fully understanding just what sort of world that place had become."