[dan feng slowly looks up from the piece of paper, right at wriothesley - right through him, for a moment.]

I was like your dear Iudex once. I loved a man who would live but a tenth of my lifespan, and we lived in a present bracketed by my loneliness. [he sways into wriothesley's space, voice going soft. quiet.] And when he left me, I could not bear it. I did not bear it. I snuffed out hundreds of thousands of millions of lives because I loved him too much to let him go.