"One hopes," Alacruun murmurs in agreement, "I certainly don't plan to allow myself to be imprisoned again. Here or anywhere else. It was... a trying time and I suffered for it."

Honestly, Alacruun has probably never really recovered from his long period of isolation. It's given him an obsession with completing his own objective, even after a rational examination of the facts in front of hi mwould tell him that he ought to have stopped long ago.