[ She watches him continue to falter. She sincerely, truly feels bad for him; life has been entirely unfair to him, as far as she can tell -- the way he's done everything he has because he had some need to feel validated or that he mattered... Telltale signs of a person who lost everything. ]

You know, you remind me of someone I knew from back home. Crazy powerful, just like you are. She suffered immensely when she was younger, and-- well, she did a lot of terrible things to people, too. But you know? She's doing better now. She found something she could do that made something good out of her powers.