[ Even if he had been a total charlatan, he can respect the hustle. Schemes are just tools of the trade — any trade, really — and there's a time and a place for them to serve their purpose. As Rom seems to have been upfront with him so far, he doesn't see any reason to withhold answers to his questions, even if they may not go as far as Rom would like them to. ]

You can say that again. That parasite was put on my as a sort of...punishment for "transgressions" a particular scoundrel believed I was guilty of. He was right, but I wasn't guilty in the way he thought, so it still didn't seem very fair.

[ He's out here spreading the gospel of haterism against Sunday even in other worlds. Get bent, Sunday. ]

However, I had an encounter with another individual who was able to cut me free of that sentence with the edge of her blade. Suffice it to say, I feel no lingering effects from its presence.