[ He had stayed sane throughout, aware of what he was doing even to the moment he was dragged down into the Abyss, . He can remember every victim with awful clarity. Then afterwards, learning of Lady Emily's fate had driven him to despair but not insane.

It's the reason he had wanted to die, the only release from his suffering of which he could conceive. To "lose himself" forever, that's what he had wanted. ]

Yes...

[ Uriel's hand over his lost eye is a more intimate gesture than the kiss. Break's shoulders come up; there's a tense interval when it seems that he is going to twist away, out of Uriel's grasp.

It passes. His shoulders slump; sighing, he leans forward into Uriel's warm hand. ]

The same lady who gave me my present Chain. My reason for living, I think I told you once, but it's more accurate to say... I would have shuffled off this mortal coil long ago, but for my duty to her, still unfulfilled.