"It... was a gradual thing. It started with a few friends. Or, who I thought were my friends. A few meetings, discussing magic and politics. Things eventually grew... more extreme, but they were my friends, and I couldn't abandon them. After seven years, though, things got... dark, and I just... I couldn't do it any more. So I tried to leave. They... they didn't like that. It was another two years, before I actually got away, and I've been running and hiding, ever since."