Turned into donkeys. [She shrugs.] I think it was a sort of..."business" before? Lure misbehaving little boys to a fun park in the sea where they can drink and smoke and play and party, and then they turned into donkeys. Which probably got sent to work somewhere. Or it's just some terrible punishment that has no point.

[Except to make Pinocchio suffer. Mostly likely that if we're being frank.]

Same. And I feel just awful about it, that Viktor died so terribly and I didn't make the time to know him. And that he wanted so desperately to live, and was fighting for that right even before he came here.

[She loses herself in a thought. Then pours a second shot before it swallows her whole.]