How's your moment of a breather away from everyone going, huh, Istredd? Really rocking that solitude when you're grappling with a celestial being's self-loathing.

Regardless, he doesn't have an answer. He know it changed a lot about him, pressed in deep. But he may have still gone down the same road, may have still turned his back to Michael, with or without the Mark.

I got a few lines in and then promptly ignored that. Very much a TL;DR moment.