Oh, stop, this is really quite too much for me. You should have pursued a career in comedy long before considering the Lucian court. [The sudden laugh turned to a low chuckle, humorless and empty. But his tone was back to being light and cheerfully condescending, business as usual despite how unfitting it was for what he said next:]

It's far too late for anyone to even pretend to think something human still stands before you. Two thousand years too late, I'm afraid. Why, if anyone else dared to be stupid enough to think they can show me sympathy I think I might just kill them on the spot.