"You are not going crazy, Brodie. I assure you of that. You have simply been a victim of events occurring around you that has built a confusing picture for you. That is only because you do not have all the pieces of the puzzle. Which is why I am here, to talk to you about that." Xavier paused for a moment, analysing Brodie closely but quietly. Asher told him Brodie was very in-tuned to music and had always had a lot of ambition to pursue that was a career. If things were to go the way Asher hoped, Brodie would surely be Toreador material. It would just be a hard Embrace for the Sire with the tainted blood flowing through his veins. Just like it had been for Greg when he Embraced Trystan, though to this day, Greg has no recollection of it. He had been so ill in the wake of it, it had been easy for Xavier to manipulate his mind so he forgot it.

The boy certainly had a way with words, though. "I am not a doctor, nor am I God or one of his employees. But I am something that may come as quite a shock for you to take in initially, so I have to ask that you try to keep an open mind whilst we talk. I understand it will be extremely difficult for you believe and understand, and I do not, in any way, expect you to just accept my word. But knowledge of something new that you had no awareness of prior must come before I can show you that it is very real. So, I am going begin by say that that, yes, Asher is alive, however, he also did die. He was just brought back."