“That boy shows exceptional abilities. Gifted in dark arts, even. But he had no grasp over the channeling, the control of that darkness. So I took it upon myself to teach him, in the scant time between travelling to the First. He has the coordination of a toddler. No, less than that. A fish?”

“It is like he does not wish to learn at all. He’s afraid of that darkness, that it will overwhelm what little humanity he had left. True, when I found him, he was so close to the brink of the Abyss... Ah, well. He will learn one way or another. Unlike that little shade of his, that girl with Hydaelyn’s gift. She holds the talent to master the Dark, but of course she will be hoarded away by Her.”

“At first I believed you to have become possessed. You, by far the least coordinated creature I know, were elegant and calculated. No movement wasted as the shadows danced within you. I would have been proud of you mastering what I taught you, had you not opened your mouth. What a great waste of my time, to see you allow your mind to be overwhelmed by your own Darkness. Might you even strike at me next, were I to offer you the slightest opposition? You bloody fool. You’ve learned nothing.”

“....”