“I don’t think even spending a full decade with your tongue down his throat would have been enough to dispell that,” Lambert says sincerely. Hopefully that saves Ignatius from a fate of Strange even trying.

“He would have been fine if he hadn’t gone out to see Rita, but he wouldn’t run.” Lambert sounds like he half-admires Ignatius for that, or is half-exasperated by it. “But he figured he could use Rita being his faeblood now to take her back from the Mother. He was right, but you saw how that turned out.”