I know what I said. Would you rather I not? I don't understand why blood is such an untouchable bogeyman to your kind. I have no reason to fear it the way you obviously do. If I avoid it in my spellwork, it's out of respect for your tender feelings--a general 'you', obviously. Not my own.

[And yeah, he'd kind of like not to end up in a dungeon or on a scaffold, either, but he tells himself that's a secondary concern.]