"After a fashion, yes. It played on my fears and insecurities, and when it came time to leave with Bae...I was too afraid to go. I let go of him and clung to the dagger that was keeping me from falling into the portal, because I was too scared of the unknown and of going back to the crippled coward I was before." Of course, what he hadn't realized until much later was he'd never stopped being a coward, he may have been capable of fixing his leg, but finding actual courage was something it had taken him centuries to do.

He sighed softly, then chuckled softly in a wry manner at Henry's last questions. "I was like that partially due to the manner in which I gained the curse I suspect. You... took it without killing anyone. Thus I believe as long as you don't give in to it, if you refuse to embrace it, then you won't change. It will seek to get you to use the power, the magic, because it wants you to get a taste for it. Because once you get a taste of it, of how easy it is to use, how empowering it is...then it is much easier to fall into its trap."