...How strange. You were capable of sustaining yourself without food or water beforehand? Fascinating.

Dante told me once that you and your loud older brother were 'beings beyond my comprehension,' and suggested to me that I would not be able to do something like research what it is you are. I cannot think of many mythical creatures that can forgo food and water, other than spirits or gods.

[ and while he's far from wanting to sit and view this... child as a seedling of a godlike being, he's having even greater difficulty imagining someone like that idiot Dante keeps the company of is a godlike being, as well.

He'll stare at the kid, though, as he admits that he will tell him things. ...He will listen, and much to his word, he will keep such things the boy wishes to admit to him secret.

Even if he was not quite prepared to hear the weight of the secret once it hits his ears.
His eyes slide over to look at Kni, as if seeing--as if understanding him for the first time.
There's a memory, here, somewhere. Of a giant tree, pitted and baneful, rising up in the center of a city. And how much blood ran through it. It makes his skin feel itchy. ]

Miscalculated. As in, they were not meant to survive.

[ he crosses his arms, here. ]

Dante mentioned you feared humans. Was this thing that you did. This reason you deserve to be alone.
Did you do it out of fear, or out of malice.
...You are young. Far younger than you appear.

I feel this decision you made was quite rash. [ the reaction of a desperate mind doing the only thing it could think of. ]