[Knives simply waits through the pause, patient. There was another lake to visit, and perhaps there he could be alone to work on the floundering struggles of learning how to swim on his own. Maybe he should try it at night.. humans were diurnal. It wouldn't help with people like Xzana, but others..]

It seems you are well suited to the solitary life you've chosen for yourself, then.

[It's said without malice, without judgment.]

I shall leave you to your lake. There is another I would like to investigate before it grows too late.