"I have to keep playing this. I... She still makes me weak. I know it's not her, but she still does, whereas you've only ever strengthened me." Why were they doing this to him? And who was? His mind was trying to work it out, but there simply weren't enough clues, not enough of a connection. "Of course they want me to stumble. It's a better move, at this junction, than killing me would be, for anyone who is after you. If somebody killed me, no one would get out of it alive, would they?"