I don't think he -- he didn't. Not personally. [He couldn't possibly believe Marco would stoop that low, even if he's feeling very uncharitable right now.] But I know. I know somethin's gone because --
[He reaches up convulsively to touch the gnarly ring of scarring around his throat. He remembers when he didn't have it. He remembers when he did, but in the middle, between those two points--]
I don't know. How I got this. It's just gone. I can guess at the time it happened but not what did it, and if I've lost that who knows what else is gone? It's gone -- it's all gone blue.
[Blue like the light Rohan forced him to remember that first time, blue like the ray, like forgetting.]
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[He reaches up convulsively to touch the gnarly ring of scarring around his throat. He remembers when he didn't have it. He remembers when he did, but in the middle, between those two points--]
I don't know. How I got this. It's just gone. I can guess at the time it happened but not what did it, and if I've lost that who knows what else is gone? It's gone -- it's all gone blue.
[Blue like the light Rohan forced him to remember that first time, blue like the ray, like forgetting.]