Blunt force trauma-ing Rodolphus's junk since 1980 (curseunbroken) wrote in lockdown,
"It's been that way since the accident," Gideon said softly. "I don't know if anyone told you about that. My -- my girlfriend and I were cursebreakers, working on the same job, and there was... an explosion. I think. I don't remember it all clearly. But she died, and she'd been pregnant, and since then, I... I need something I can control."
He kept looking down at his hands, at his leg, before looking back up to her.
"It's got worse, since -- then. I wake up screaming, I see them every time I turn around, and it's just... something I can control, pain I can control, but I'm afraid of what might happen if there's nobody to stop me."