That's a statement he relates to rather well and Marcus nods thoughtfully, looking back at the drawing for a moment. He'd run from Mouse, not only because he loved her and knew nothing could come of it given their respective choices -- him, a priest and exorcist, her, a young woman mere weeks from taking her vows -- but because he had failed her, too. Because he knew if she came out on the other side of that possession, one that had been his fault in the first place for even allowing her to get close to the demon, she would be changed. She would hate him.

He hadn't been able to save her, but he also hadn't wanted to stick around and be forced to tell her all the ways in which he'd failed her, beginning with the moment he'd fallen in love with her.

"Do they know if you're still alive?" he asks, his voice soft.