She spoke of something he wasn't entirely unfamiliar with, though he wouldn't say his soul had been splintered. More like stained. But he'd heard of similar things happening to others; traumatic events making their minds do things unheard of to protect themselves. He may have been burned to 'death' by the sun himself, but that wasn't nearly the same as suffering at the hands of others as a child. Not to that degree. "Then they were taken by the thing they created. If they'd left you be, this... other self wouldn't exist. That rage wouldn't have been kindled. They were the architects of their own destruction." And he had no sympathy for those that preyed on children, no matter the reason. Too many claimed the necessity of innocent blood for a just cause.

When all the innocents were used as sacrifice, what else was left but the monsters?