"It was a terrible place. Worse than the nightmare future we once visited. Something about staring everything about yourself that you fear in the face is," he said, shuddering, "...particularly troubling."
"Now you've got me wondering what you could have gotten out of being lit on fire," Sean said, "Because if you liked it that might be something you'd want to consider getting checked out."
"More like," he said as he lifted a piece of paper. He breathed out a puff of pale blue energy onto it. Then he dropped it on the table, where it shattered.