That just about drove me off the deep end. It was true that I had been unsuccessful in locating a cure for the king's ailment. But after what I had seen, I worried that his disease was caused by karmic retribution for his gross excesses in violating the civil rights of his subjects. The cure for something like that was slow and painful; the king would be even unhappier to hear this news. What could I do? I seemed destined to enter the House of Unnameable Horrors myself.