[Emet-Selch throws his head back and laughs.]

Food poisoning! Oh how cruel life can be... And crueler still, it seems. "Once upon a time"?

[He wipes away a tear with his gloved hand as he quiets his chuckling.]

You're familiar, then, with your own life's novel? I suppose the drama would be entirely missing were it a book you hadn't read... You wouldn't even know it was a book at all!