"Yeah? Us losers have gotta stick together," he says, nodding in solidarity. They've traded places for last a few times over the course of the night, but Leon's been there much more frequently. It's a good thing he hasn't got his ego staked on this.

In any case, making bad jokes about near death (or, in this case, maybe actual death) situations is a coping strategy he is well familiar with, and he picks up on it immediately.

"Hey, if Mortanne wasn't going to challenge us to a game of chess for our souls or something, we've gotta pick up the slack somehow, right?"