Galen smiles a bit at the jongleur's fatalistic attitude, knowing that it might well come true he joins in. "It is as Stephen says, let us ride the day and the night for tomorrow we may yet dine with our ancestors in the afterlife." Galen bows politely to the two ladies and proffers a hand to the two ladies, in hopes that one if not both might deign to dance the night to Stephan's music, if only to enrage the demons further. Music alone could not defeat them but the need for one's spirit to be kept up only waxes the further one travels from the light and from safety.