It was truly heart-rending. I know that none of us could possibly have taken his pain from him, of course, just as I can't relieve you of yours, but..... To see him try to save himself at the last moment, once it was far too late..... What a haunting spectacle. Like a classical tragedy played out upon a stage.

[Does it make more sense why he pursued you so fiercely now, Jade? He spent weeks helplessly watching his best friend's slow descent into madness from a front row seat, then plunged into a den of Phantoms full of the collected anguish of tens of thousands of people hardly a week later. He's been quietly shaken, to say the least, no matter how doggedly optimistic he remains.]