Well. It's no mountain hot spring.

[But perhaps he's just being curmudgeonly-- the baths in the Gallows are a technological marvel, and even Gideon has to admit it.
Just, maybe not happily.]

You mentioned an abomination being the reason your duties brought you here, [he muses, a spoonful of stew hovering between the bowl and his mouth.]

I'm as new to this place as you are, and I don't recall hearing about one. What happened?