[At least his capacity for destruction is much reduced. He's been there a whole month, and this is the first thing he's destroyed, and it wasn't even intentionally.]

Sometimes the simple things are nice. Meaningless, but nice.

[Like when K'rihnn had scritched his cat ears while he'd had them. That had been pleasant.]

You'll wear yourself out if you insist on nothing but the arduous. Every task made a misery, out of some misguided attempt to imbue meaning.

[Everything was miserable regardless of effort anyway.]