"Those who've chosen to stay in the Fortress of Meropide may change their minds if they start having kids in it. It's still a prison - raising a kid there's different from living there as an adult. I wouldn't do it." But then, Wriothesley has pretty high standards for the steps he'd take to raise a child in safety and happiness.

"So the Fountain of Lucine thing is real - was real? I always figured that was a folk superstition, but I guess it makes sense. Fontaineans have that unusual constitution..." He doesn't actually know why they'd dissolve and he wouldn't, just that it's the case. Dottore was eager to run experiments on him, but only an idiot would take that offer (yes, that does include Mezzetino).