Why, I guess. I mean, it's a pretty good gig, right? Seeing how things fit together, putting them right, healing people. But why me? I messed it up so badly, at first, because I didn't know what I was doing, and...

[He trails off. He trusts the lion, in ways he recognizes but doesn't understand, but he doesn't know how to talk about the parasite without sounding like he's trying to shift blame. He doesn't know how to explain it at all, or what the thing was properly called, and it seems like way too much to just dump at someone else's feet. It's been his to carry for a long time. And - dude. Talking lion, he's done weird stuff, but this is...something.]

Sorry. Just been thinking about a lot of stuff tonight, I guess.