[. . . she settles for the next best thing, which is allowing her arm to fall to her side as she leans back into him, rocking back on her heels]

. . .

There's a reason the Abbey wanted to destroy all emotion in humans, you know.

[calm. even. composed. detached]

Creatures from my world, whenever they experience a negative emotion such as anger or sadness, produce malevolence. Too much malevolence turns them into a monster. A daemon. This can affect animals, humans, malakhim. . . anything with free will.

We call that affliction the daemonblight.

[. . .]

Destroy all emotion, destroy malevolence, destroy the daemonblight. That is. . . the last piece of the story I told you.