He...looked just like me. [He leans his head back briefly, letting out a long breath.] He and his one true love, Amara, were the first immortals. Elena and I are their doppelgangers.
[He lets out another shaky breath.]
When he told me, he locked me in a safe, and dropped it into the Quarry. I was stuck there...all summer.
[Talking about it makes the memories stir, and his fingernails only cut deeper, as if they pain will keep it away.]