[ Another bubbling paroxysm of laughter. Yet Xerxes Break remains himself, contractor and controller of Mad Hatter. Their old relationship has been reestablished. Things are as they were. And yet....
The fact that Kevin's (Uriel's) spear touched Mad Hatter suggests that his Chain actually wants to be helped. Being a force of terror, killing so many of his own kind, year after year... it must have affected him, just as being the author of the Tragedy of Sablier must have affected Oz. Just as becoming a murderer had changed him.
He presses his hand to his chest. ]
The truth is, it's both of us who are like that. We are —
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[ Another bubbling paroxysm of laughter. Yet Xerxes Break remains himself, contractor and controller of Mad Hatter. Their old relationship has been reestablished. Things are as they were. And yet....
The fact that Kevin's (Uriel's) spear touched Mad Hatter suggests that his Chain actually wants to be helped. Being a force of terror, killing so many of his own kind, year after year... it must have affected him, just as being the author of the Tragedy of Sablier must have affected Oz. Just as becoming a murderer had changed him.
He presses his hand to his chest. ]
The truth is, it's both of us who are like that. We are —