'The latter'? 'More likely'? You are hearing what you wish to hear, to cement your own beliefs that you have convinced yourself are true. I gave no latter, only a continuation of the former.

[The creature flows over to the bars. It looks within, but some of its eyes keep focused on Mika.]

If this place has swallowed him, his strength is its. He would not be able to tear down these bars. He would be choked with his own guilt. That is how the godless die. That is how you will die.

[It begins to morph - not into anyone just yet, just changing its form form slightly.]

Perhaps.