Claire... The connection of your nerve ending has nothing to do with the person that you are. It's your thoughts, your emotions, your ability to care about the people around you. Feeling pain? That's nothing more than a trick of the physiology, something to get people from major injury. It has nothing to do with who you are.
No. If it hadn't been for my ability, such an action never would have even crossed my mind. But with it, I wasn't able to control myself. The desire, the urge, the hunger... When it first started, it was in charge. The ability was controlling me. I wasn't controlling it.