Ariel, I will lay bare every transgression, every confession and apology you deserve, should you desire it. You need but ask.
It was an incredibly easy button for him to press, that I'll admit. But he is right -- this is necessary. You deserve to know that it was not him to desire your entire destruction, he was only the agent of it. It was he who fell in love with Helena, and it was he which killed you. But it was due to my weakness and ill-conceived desire to ascend that he did anything at all.
Even if I might never be free of him, it does not mean that I won't protect you from him and his poisonous desire to make you fall as I fell.