[Vakama's touch is comforting for Raven's base instincts. He lets out a gentle breath and nudges into the Matoran's hand. For the briefest of moments, he thinks this nightmare was finally coming to an end.

So much for that. No, there's a reason why his body was so desperately screaming at him to run.

He hisses and shrieks in the face of this new creature. Instinctively he knows he has absolutely no chance of fighting this thing, but...this thing has Vakama's voice. This must be the change that Vakama went through.

He holds his ground. What little ground he has, at any rate.]

So this is where that path led you, huh? [Another guttural hiss escapes him.] Yeesh, and I thought how I handled myself was embarrassing.

[It's not far off from Schwann though, is it? He got so wrapped up in his hopelessness that he stopped caring. He did horrible things in Alexei's name. He became a husk of the knight he once strove to be.

This really is poetic, then.]

I've seen the Vakama of today, so this better have just been a phase.