Diarmuid winces, though he can't say that her reaction is unexpected, "I didn't want to leave everyone, but I had to. I needed time to sort my head out, to find my lines, to learn that darkness that Ganondorf so easily controlled..." He forces himself to look at her, "I am at the point where the only one who can change me is me. I need to do that without everyone telling me how it's okay and that it isn't my fault. I know those things. Knowing isn't the problem. It never has been."

"It's been accepting. That is what I am having trouble with and that is what I am fixing."