...I told you about that woman I was dating for a while. The one I killed.

[His words are...suddenly very blank; they're still happening, thankfully, he's not shutting down entirely, but the emotions are going to be...a bit off for a while, it looks like.

It's not something he usually does; that's...largely new, actually.]

I also told you that I remembered a certain kind of...monstrous thing that seems to be a common theme in my memories. The things that I suspect I was going to use to rule over the world as some sort of god, the massive one that came into being somehow on the deck of a tanker, like this one.

[There's another tremendous slam against the ship, coming from the same sort of spot that it hit out in the hallway; it happens once, then twice, again and again, like it's trying to break through the- ]

...Killing Excella and creating monsters like that may have been slightly more interconnected than I let on when I first told you about it - move, we can't stay here.

[Come on, back into the hallway, trying to ignore whatever is out there that's trying to puncture the steel, trying the doors again - ]