Since that last part was meant to be at least partially a joke, Montresor laughed appropriately and continued to smile lightly as they talked. He would also sip from his tea often and occasionally take a polite nibble from his cookie. He wondered privately how no one had ever noticed before that Illyria really was a sweet and gentle girl.<br/><br/>"If I lived in a place like this, I'd probably turn half the house into a roller coaster or something like that. No sense in letting all that space go to waste when you could live out your childish fantasies, right?"