That time. The times I left the Dark World before Arthur, I was usually destructive. I told you how I killed his partner; it was the first thing I did once I was out.

I killed the others before that, other people who picked up the book. I was... desperate to get out of that place, and when I found resistance, when they threatened my fragile control, I realize now, I stamped out those lives without a thought.

[ He lets that hang in the air for a moment before he continues.]

I made it out better that time because I was forced to examine everything I was and everything I had been. Forced to consider what I had, what was important, what the fuck I was doing with my existence. With my life.