Dan snorts. "No, you wouldn't want to hear of it-" but then realizes that if he holds off on explaining, possibly this memory world will decide to spill the beans for him, and as little as he enjoys talking about the curse he would take it a thousand times over having to relive parts of it.

"A witch cursed my family and one of us died painfully every January full moon for eight years. And I'm the only one who got away."

He doesn't want to say more about it. He hopes that's enough for both Loken and for whatever power might force him to see it all again- the way he's so clearly seeing Loken's memory now. He doesn't understand what is happening, doesn't know the history between these two, knows Loken's world only from the descriptions of violence and turning people into weapons.

He watches the memory of Loken's face to see how to respond.