(laughs) Oh please! Your opinion of yourself is far greater than is healthy. I do not while the days away thinking, 'Oh, what can I do to torture Argalen today?' You are of little significance, though that has not precluded me from trying to mould you into something useful. I try because you are malleable, though with all of your flaws, I may well have to move on.

Tell me, would you have the walnut grow without its fruit, without the hard shell, the soft flesh of the nut exposed to all? We would, I think, end up with a great number of fat squirrels... until winter came and they all starved to death, the unprotected nuts no longer viable. (chuckles) I don't profess to have made a sensible analogy there...

These waters... nay, all the waters of the seas could not fill the void in my heart, could not cleanse the darkness in my soul! Were I intending to clean myself here and now, I would turn all the waters of this world red with the stain of the blood I have on my hands... the blood of those I should have loved and nurtured rather than 'aiding' them on to the next phase of their lives. I was blind to the fact that I cut short their purpose... Bah! I am a hideous monster... I counsel love but what do I know about it? I am incapable of ever loving again.