...I guess now I'm just wondering... if I'll run mad with it, one day. Like... if whatever happened to her could happen to anyone.

[His gaze is fixed to the table again - or the cooling coffee, downcast either way - his thumb drumming lightly against the handle. He's been afraid of his powers before, of the severe lack of control he used to have and the pain and terror he'd felt when he nearly killed Kesler the day they'd manifested. He doesn't know how frightening changing the entire world could be, but his imagination can take it pretty far.]

She got like that because she lost the people she loved. Something drove her into a corner. I think about losing my family, my friends... Teddy... and I just...

[He shuts his eyes, unable to finish. The thought of it is just- it's more frightening than his magic, a nightmare of the imagination. The life they live? The battles they fight?

It's so very, very easy to die.]