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He stands up with some difficulty, and begins pacing about the cell.
"You want to know... why all those people had to die? I will tell you. You deserve to know, because you had... the honour of bearing it on your person... if for a brief day. It's because... of this." he holds out the necklace. "This is far more important... than the lives of sixty... or one million people. This is something... I've been searching for... for over a hundred years."
"Are you daft? How can all those lives be worth less than one measly ruby?"
With a calm, nonchalant monotone, he informs you:
"This is not a ruby. This... is the Philosopher's stone."
