Venom paused, casting a glance over a muscular shoulder, "Greatness is achieved by never forgetting who you were, where you came from and what made you the being you've become. Mistakes make greatness, luck grants power. To have greatness and respect you cannot forget who you were and where you came from. Your struggles are a lesson you should never forget," Venom purred.
"And you assume that I would not have found you interesting before, man of the cloth John Tudor, but you underestimate yourself. Pity. So many things hold you back. You could have so much more."
The temptation was great. He shivered with the darkness. "The shadow is all that I know. Like you, neither of us function well in the sunlight. We are our true selves in the shadow but that does not limit who we are or what we can become."