[Stocke's tendrils twitch upward - a shrug? An expression of him being unsure? Those things are oddly emotive, considering the rest of him.]

...I can't say for myself. I've not set foot anywhere but this peninsula for two years. But I've been told people don't remember this place if they return from it.

[Stocke's the first to speak to the importance of memories. But he wonders, maybe, if for Rosch - that wouldn't be the better deal, given what monsters are made to do.]