Galsek heard Meesei out, leering at her eyes in anger. When she finished, his head bowed down, he closed his eyes, and he sighed through his nose. His tone in responding was not mournful, rather it was disappointed. "So she is dead, despite it all. Just as I thought might happen..." 

He paused for a few moments, almost as if he wasn't going to answer at all, but he looked back up at Meesei with just as serious an expression as she was giving him. "So you want to promise leniency? Leniency is uncertain. I want leave to exit this mountain if I answer you. Nothing less."