"There are various modes of justice," Justus pointed out, his face having slipped from a grin to an impassive look, as if weighing the pros and cons of eating Ashton once they made landfall. "I merely took a few notes from Vlad Dracul's playbook. Admittedly, there are some differences between eating crooks and impaling them on massive steaks, but I'd say my method is more humane. The pain hardly lasts very long rather than languishing for days and days. Perhaps some time I'll go into more detail about the exact process..."<br/><br/>The wicked grin resurfaced, letting Ashton know exactly what he was implying.<br/><br/>"I hope you savored it," Justus said to Reiko, turning to face her. "Because where we're going, there aren't good dreams. Just nightmares and nightmares-made-flesh."