"...Are you lecturing me right - " He cuts himself off as his voice starts trembling with laughter, indignantly delighted. No, no, that is not happening.

None of this should be happening, he never should have been this selfish.

"I'm not a bad person for selling my soul." Desperate times, desperate measures. "I'm a bad person because my brother gave me an escape clause with his last breath, and I was too proud to take it."