...You were really fucked up by the whole tree thing.

[He's kind of quiet for a moment. Just considering.]

I'm going to guess that whatever you're dealing with is one of those worse-than-death things.

[That corridor is long, and occasionally there are bends; what's noticeable about it, however, is that there are no people - no guards, no inmates, no sign that anyone else has ever been here at all.]