Oh, I don't think I'll be going into an arena again anytime soon. And I've got a new set of nightmares to keep me up, but I think it gave me some perspective on a few things.

[Enough to assuage the guilt, anyway. Enough to give him closure. It doesn't change that it didn't happen that way and people still died on his watch, but the blood on his hands is clean now. And that means a lot.]