"Look, Lily, you can say that I was the one who killed Allen McPhee—but remember one thing: when we are bound to fulfill a responsibility, and someone comes in the way to stop us from carrying it out, we are left with no choice but to remove them from our path. That is exactly what I did. At that time, Allen McPhee tried to stop me from completing that ritual, and during those days I was still a newly recruited follower, freshly inducted into the supportive community of the Ashen Angels. I was afraid then, and because of that fear, I invoked my dark powers and summoned spirits—the very forces that took Allen McPhee's life.
