For a moment, the expression of mischief was frozen on his face. He wanted no one to see his darkest secrets or biggest nightmares. And there were many... the big dire moments had all come later. An axe swung at his sanity... but already before that words and actions had chipped away at his self. Both his own and that of others.
"Isn't that already what is happening?" His smile stayed but it was hardly gleeful anymore. He stretched out his arm in an invitation.