"You're implying that a loss would kill you," he says flatly. "More specifically, we imagine, a lack of transitions, a lack of transformations, a lack of...finality. The status quo. Except loss alone isn't enough to kill you, or you lot would be dying like flies. Star died because Moebius weakened her before Belljar. Fortune...well, we don't know exactly what weakened Fortune, but it was evidently something to do with either Yensid or January. Just losing shouldn't be enough for you to kick the bucket, not only it's own. Something else needs to happen first. So what weakened you?"