Painful. He laughs. Overwhelming. Unique. I've never been in the presence of something so powerful. It only made me more intrigued.

It's not as if it was possible that Istredd would go there and suddenly decide not to be interested anymore. He was always going to want to know more, explore everything he can, get answers. It's just a difference of passion. If it turned out to be less than expectations, he would have done it from a logic necessary standpoint. He still cares.

I would say before I have no intention of helping Thorne control it, but I truly don't think they ever could. Their ambitions about that are a dead end. That is what he thinks as of now.