"Yes, yes, I know." Part of him feels... ugh, it's so complicated. On the one hand, he desperately wants to see Sylvie again. To invite her to enchant him and see the truth of it all for herself, because he knows now that he handled it poorly in the end.

He explained nothing.

And there are reasons for that, definitely, but a great many of them simply boil down to I was exhausted and outplayed and had run out of viable options over the course of centuries -- none of which is anything Sylvie, B, OB, Mobius, Casey or HWR's variant knew anything about at the time.

"I ensured that everyone had a choice. Free will. But the cost was very high."