[Stephen sucks in a deep breath, then slowly lets it out again.]

...Oh.

[Broken things, he thinks. One man's loss was nearly enough to end the world; that Gabriel and Kaecilius, on some level, have something in common....

Not helpful. Gabriel is a patient and to an extent a friend. He's not Stephen's enemy.]

It's...you're right, this isn't my area, but I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it's not entirely irrelevant to what's going on now.

[God, he's out of his depth.]

We can't...we can't change our past, and someone told me that...we don't defeat our demons. We learn to rise above them.