Jason stepped between the pair after Lyren showed his rune, putting a hand on both their shoulders. "Lyren, the past is more capable of consuming a man than any magic can, and that's based solely on what I've seen when," he stops and thinks about how to continue, "Well, the most relevant example is when a dark guild mage switches to become a light guild mage after some kind of revelation. Though that mage's magic might be considered dark and consuming, his past is what truly hurts him, and he spends the rest of his life making too many rights to make up for too few wrongs. His guilt at the things he did destroying him far more thoroughly than any other force."

Stepping back again, Jason decides to keep a focus on looking for monsters, listening carefully to the back ground noises and all that.