[A dedicated drinker, even if she misses the mark... Henry folds his arms on the table. Fortunately, the majority of the bargoers are drunk enough to have seamlessly moved onto the next shiny thing; their attention's fixed on The Sport, giving Henry and Nott both some room away from their earlier demands.]

I'll say. I never signed up, myself, but lots of folks consider me to be weird. Weird for a human weird, too. I guess. Not that I really understand the normal way to be a human!

If torture's the norm for you goblins, what happened to make it so torturous for you in particular? Scarred? In a non-surgical way, I mean. [Leave it to Henry to crack jokes about serious things.] Or is it just a natural aversion?