[There's a moment of hesitation. He really is trying. He wants to stay calm if he can. Control yourself. It's easier said than done.]

I still don't know what set you off. [It's an honest statement, and there's more than a little pain behind it.]

I sat in that cell for days. [It felt like days, anyway.] I tried to break out, but I couldn't.

[His body does tense now, the left hand flexing, clenching, unclenching. He must have bitten himself a hundred times.]

Your friend showed up. She closed me in.

[The sound of the metal, grating slowly across the stone.]

I don't know why. [He's always been a monster. Why now?] I didn't do a goddamn thing to her.

["Or to you," he feels like saying.]

All the lights were gone. I felt like I would die.

And I saw you. But you weren't there.