[In return, he rolls his eyes at the first statement, because it's a lot easier to play things off than it is to show how worried he is. The other, though, brings him right back down to the reality of the situation.]

No. Because we found him. Dead.

[There's a bleakness in his voice.]

He went into the Deep Roads for the true Calling and died down there. We found his body. ...And a lead at finding a cure, but I think I'm still some ways off from that.