"Such self-awareness is admirable." Nightingale takes a long swallow of his beer. "I hope I haven't stirred up too much negative emotion in asking you to recount all of this. It's in my nature, I suppose, to know as much as possible about other practitioners around me. It's been my duty to protect the less powerful for a long enough time that I can't entirely switch it off." He offers up something like a smile. "But I do believe this is a place for second chances, and it seems that your thoughts already lead you down a better path."