"Are you staying for the celebratory refreshments?" asked the porter who had first shown them all in and had now come to pick up the recording. The three thanked him, but decided to leave.
"I cannot believe it’s finally all over" said Goober in wonderment at what he had just seen. "I thought for sure he was to be thrown into a flaming pit or something. Still, it shall be agony enough for him I think?"
"Life will go well for him," said Puck grimly, "He can yet derive happiness - and who knows, when the frustration has ceased its nagging and he invests himself in goodness, he may feel the merits of it accordingly."
"Puck, one thing I don't get ... why couldn't we have just cut to the end bit and the court saved the whole twelve days. We could have weighed the heart from the beginning, couldn't we?"
"Repentance makes the heart much lighter. If he had only had the will to change his ways and feel sorriness for all he did wrong, it would have saved him - he could have kept his power."
Puck said this while watching the little dog lick the blood from his whiskers - seeing that the heart had now gone from the plate.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series
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