P. 60: "Beck listened with evident pleasure - finally here was someone to whom I was able to give something!"


It was nothing out of the ordinary for me, to watch the confusion spread over the faces of the task force as I explained my current theories and the rather abridged version of how I had arrived at them. A strange feeling rippled through me, however, when I first spoke with him - when I first realized that I could converse with him on my own level, without needing to slow down or pause to explain myself in simpler terms.

It thrilled me to the core; it was more delectable than the sweetest strawberry cream cake, to be with someone who could understand me so easily, who could spark my interest with his words and actually keep it. Light listened with evident pleasure - finally here was someone to whom I was able to give my true thoughts!

But to know from the depths of this same heart that he was the conductor of a massive orchestra of death... that pained me more than any amount of sweets could make up for.