Again, there is a pause. He’d never really gotten this far in his talks with Godric. If anything, he’d shown how he felt rather than talked about it.

He hates verbalizing these things, almost as much as he hates himself. But he signed up for this so he isn’t just going to walk out if there is a chance this can help him and possibly Florian.

He looks down at the paper and writes again.

I think that I am broken. Defective.

That my responses to these things are always wrong.

That only a monster could hurt people he care about as easily as I do.