The Big Wizard Clark once said a very famous line:
"...If a wizard of high age and virtue says something is possible, he might be right; but if he says something is impossible, then he may be very wrong."
"...To discover the boundary of whether something is possible, the only way is to cross this boundary, moving from impossibility to possibility."
The Rat Immortal greatly revered this statement.
Because more than one 'wizard of high age and virtue' had told him that certain things were impossible—
Your wife, who has already fallen into a Mi-go, is beyond salvation, and the best outcome is for her to die of old age in the Black Prison. You can't research a new, more exquisite magic ritual to transform her fall.
Your daughter lost in the world in the mirror is already dead, it's been so long, you should let it go; even if you shuttle through the mirror a hundred times a day, you won't find a soul destined to disappear.
