"Or your lab burning down around you because someone you'd harmed deeply had summoned divine fire into it, in order to destroy you and himself," he says, looking away. "That was the last thing I remember from the time before the memories of Kiernan MacLeod begin. I'd almost as soon move as quickly as possible, but... One of the better things about Kazutaka Muraki: he was a physician, and he understood the nature of healing and the time it could take. But even he, too, got impatient at times," he adds dryly. "Perhaps I'm still very much like him."