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"I am interested in knowing more about you. About your past." "There is not much to tell. I remember so little, even though I have lived for so long. But most of this time I have spent sleeping." "Sleeping?" "My first memory, I was a child in Tibet, and I was taken by my master to a place in northern india. The Buddha had just been enlightened, and my task was to influence and corrupt the process. I was a child and living on the street, alone, abandoned and hungry, and one of his disciples took me into his care, so I worked on him for a while. Before I could reach the master himself, I lost all consciousness, until I was much in the form I am now, a youth on the threshold of manhood. I was watching with the crowd as they brought Jesus to his place of executon", and here he shudders and goes quiet. Then he looks up at me, his dark eyes clear now, and there appears to be a gleam of light flickering in the pupils. "After I drove in the nails, after he looked at me with such pity and compassion, I lost all consciousness again, and only awoke on a beach in Sweden a bit more than a hundred years ago where the dark lord was instructing me to take into my custody the mother of Isabella and Sven and direct them to the house where he would seduce her and conceive the twins...