"Nothing?" A slight, cracked huff of not-laughter. "I mean, I did it anyway, I had to. And it did work, I mean --"

He pauses.

"There was," slowly, "there was one bad moment. I didn't think about it until I was almost up to it, and then ..."

This time his smile is less unhappy, and more apologetic. "I don't know how much sense this is gonna make. Do you know anything about how exorcism works?"