"I know." It was the second time he had heard that, and he was not a victim of disbelief - he acknowledge that it wasn't real. "I know it's only what could have been and it was just a virus."

"It's the could have part. I...I could have been that..."

Horrible? Evil? Just plain bad? Darc trailed off as he had a hard time coming up with the right word. Perhaps, because there wasn't one.