Mort had watched the whole thing atop Thanatos's shoulder. He doesn't see anything different about Lagos. He twitches an ear. Did it not work?

"When I tried to strengthen the bond I had with Mort, I did something similar." Not necessarily with these ingredients. He tried to give the power directly to Mort again and again over a longer period of time and with Ambrosia. He doesn't have that time now, doesn't even know if it would be possible, thus he used parts of what made up Lagos in the first place and hoped it would stick.

"Can you move? Wiggle some part of you?"