You have many talents, Daud, and they’ve served you. Delilah’s talents are quite different. She creates images, but she does more. She captures spirit, she insinuates her will into her subject, whatever it is. We’re witnessing her masterpiece, and perhaps yours as well.
Now you understand what you were doing all along. Emily’s fate hangs in the balance, but so does yours, and the next few moments may be the last choices you make in your life. There are times when I delight in seeing lives end and chaos spread, but the path you’ve taken here honors your skills. I give my Mark sparingly, Daud. I’ve seen it used for power, for love, for money. For strange obsessions that drove the wearer mad. But very, very rarely, for redemption.