“We were taken by surprise by a couple of unknown attackers. They knocked us out before tying our hands and feet to chairs so we couldn’t escape.”
“When we came to, we found ourselves powerless to stop the flames from devouring our skin, muscle, hair, and whatever else it could eat off of us. All we could really do was accept our fate and let the flames pick us clean and leave the bones.”
“James and I were lucky. While I don’t know how my boy escaped from the fire’s wrath, my constraints were burned off and I was allowed to escape.”
“Although that fire has long since been extinguished, another one burns deep inside me. Seeing everything I’ve worked for and the love of my life go up in flames has stirred up a desire for revenge that I need to have fulfilled.”
“The longer I think about what needs to be done, the stronger that fire burns. It grows stronger still now that my son has been taken from me.”
“The only way my inner flame can be put out is if someone kills me. As a survivor, I won’t let that happen easily.”
“Despite surviving the same ordeal I have and in similar conditions, Drewitt’s inner fire had been snuffed out a long time ago.”
“You’ve been knocked out and entrapped inside a burning enclosure too, pilgrim. You were powerless to stop Tombstone and Igor from setting the coffin you were sealed in alight and all you could do was hope you finally died.”
“But you didn’t. Instead, you found yourself surviving your predicament much like you survived all those other murder and suicide attempts.”
“You were lucky to walk out of the mortuary in fighting condition. You should’ve ended up looking like me, but you managed to keep all of your skin and muscle.”
“While most people would find a fire being lit inside them after living through an ordeal like that, you simply meander throughout your eternal life with no drive whatsoever. Ever since you ate that ambrosia, all you want to do is find a way to end your life once and for all.”
“It’s taken that inner fire from you, and you can’t reignite it. Without it, you don’t have any desire to get revenge against Tombstone for putting you through such an unspeakable torment. Without it, you have no desire for anything at all.”
“You’ve been burned by the hands of the ferryman and by life. This curse has taken your passion from you, and that will end up costing you not only when you fight him again, but also when we eventually meet up as well.”
“I’m going to show you my inner fire when we face off in that ring. When I do, you’ll be wishing you stayed dead after Teddy shot you. You’ll be wishing you stayed as a pile of ash after Tombstone burned you.”
“You’ll wish that you were snuffed out before ever meeting a father who’d do anything to save his son.”