[Nathan sees his own as so minor compared to what Lazarus goes through that it hardly seems worth it to trouble anyone with them. He's fine, relatively. It's no one else's problem.]

With only the two of us, it isn't quite enough for a pattern . . . though I do not think it would surprise me.

[Nathan has wondered off and on, when his mind has had time to drift, if they will ever meet a reincarnation of Mello. His feelings on that are rather conflicted, given what he knows of the relationship between Mello and Near. It hadn't been good then, and while that does not mean it couldn't be different now . . .

[He kneels down to scoop up some of it himself. Even he, who has eaten many questionable things just to survive, is leery of consuming anything that used to be slime.] As it is, I am somewhat hesitant to keep them, knowing what they've come from.

[It would be less risky than eating what had once been slime, surely. Still. Too much of an unknown for him to trust.]