"Ascension," he echoes, finding that a curious word. "And here I would think ascending the ranks of hell means going the other way." There is a genuine part of Hal that isn't fearful of the tortures that a place like hell might hold for him, but rather what he could do in a place like that. What parts of him would have to die in order to allow that to happen.

"Quite the heavy conversation, considering we've only just met," he notes.