“Because when I look at you, I see it. It’s there, behind that innocent face.” He is mocking me. When I don’t respond, as he was surely goading me to do, he continues. “You’ve got a lot of people fooled, but I see it. The dark. The void. That thing behind it all, the one that threatens to fill and annihilate us, you’ve seen it, and you’re trying to unsee it. So am I. We could be mutually beneficial to each other.”
