Aelia was summoned weeks ago without incident. She and John talked -- it's all on video, if you want to see it. I can forward it to you. He showed it to me when he was finished.

[There are no more secrets, not anymore. Nathaniel can deal with it. She draws in a deep breath.]

After that, we set to work on summoning the fire Animus -- and I insisted on coming along because I thought I could be of help. I've talked to it before, on its own, and it was coherent. And he put in countless measures to keep it from escaping -- and if he died, the Animus would cease being summoned, and go back to where it came from. But then Aelia showed up -- and Ekpyrosis was too powerful -- and when Aelia showed up, she --

[Here, her voice breaks, but she grits her teeth to keep talking, because Al asked her a question, and she was going to answer it, goddammit.]

-- murdered him. And left me alive a little longer.