"If I remember correctly, wasn't that the exact wording your friends up at the council aid about me, that I was a corrupted, maniacal savant with no humanity left inside him." Garrick said Max with a smile, patting his old friend on the back as if it had only been a day since they'd last seen each other. "What that girl needs is to be put in her place, maybe not to the extent I was. You know, my soul being reaved and my nearly lifeless body being left to sit in a cave until someone willingly took my place. No need for that, maybe just a beating."