No, I was stupid. I should have never been that close to the chapel in the first place.

[ ...but that's been mostly handled, for now. He shifts a bit to rest his face onto his palm. ]

I expected Erhard to break, but not like that. I thought he reminded me of someone, but that was obviously just my past trying to chase me. I want to say I should have killed him when I was feeding off of him, but he didn't even deserve that. I told him all along I was a monster too, but I think he wanted to help me out of guilt. But in that case, Anon and I deserve the same treatment.

A life is a life, and no self-righteous bullshit changes that.