Keeping the pantheons happy will help everyone be happy. [ His brows lift up, a not-quite smile on his face at the answered given (a yes), clearly. Robby doesn't think this one book is going to lead to much, so he's happy to stick a bookmark in it for the pages not yet scoured, move onto another one.

Even if with the switching over between books, he's still thinking about what Palamedes just said. ]

Okay, so not a toxin, but--pollution comes along 'caue we bleed, and we bleed magic. And if we're stressed, we can get corrupted, but hugs and kisses don't do that, right? [ Okay, a small brief smile. ] So it's ours mood that stresses the blood, or magic...and doesn't everyone know warmblood works well again corruption, even though it barely has any magic?

[ That's got to mean something, right? So not an outright toxin, but something that becomes unhealthy to the system if it's stressed. He's sure there's even medical examples of that in the real world. Doesn't the body fail all the time? Killing itself in result of stress.

..granted, Robby doesn't know why warmblood's low magical properties would help towards corruption (is blood itself despite magic really so useful here??), but that's Trench for you. ]