"How loathsomely vague." He says that with the exact sort of dispassionate and grim tone that only someone who uses the word 'loathsome' in all seriousness would.

The door is completed behind him and this entire time Indrik's legs have been whirling, but now he's starting to wear out. To finish the task of calming him, Rex places one foot on his beast's belly and slowly rocks him like he's his own baby cradle.

"But forgiveness is a valuable commodity these days."

Which is his weird old man from a myth way of saying 'okay.'