"Then according to you, they'd need someone inhuman. Who wouldn't crack under all this? I obviously don't know about your world, but a place like this is beyond anything mine could possibly produce."

His tone was steady and matter-of-fact, stopping just short of admonishing.

"I'd be fucking terrified of someone that didn't start to break a little under all this. You're a reasonable and by all appearances reliable person, but even those types fall apart once in a while. But--and I know this is going to sound damn near impossible--you need to pull yourself together and keep going."