[Alucard will laugh very bitterly about that day coming and neither one of them being able to enjoy the change in scenery. He'll mutter about of course he has somehow gotten trapped in Thorne again and she'll likely commiserate, and that will be that. No Red Path, no exploring Solvunn, only the worst return to the start of it all.

But for now, there's talk of food and the art of it and that is a far better thing.]

Is it because the pounding results in something delicious you get to eat, or is there something else I've missed?

[He takes another sip of cider before reaching for a daifuku himself.]

That feels like an understatement, given the rock.