[ It's a good thing Dimitri is willing to trust. No matter what it might cost him. He nods slowly as he listens, turns the idea over and over in his head, and then takes a deep breath and settles. Even if he were aware, he might do it anyway. It's in his nature to want to help. To self-sacrifice for the sake of those around him. His survivor's guilt is too much for him to do anything but. So he turns to face him a little more fully, his expression serious as he casts his mind back to the past. ]

...my greatest fear. My greatest fear is that I will lose myself again. That I will once again descend into the madness of the beast that gripped me for so long - where I will kill without thinking, where I will be willing to slaughter armies, all for a mere taste of vengeance against those I thought had wronged me. It was a dark, terrible time - one I cannot - do not - wish to revisit.

[ That's the beginning, anyway. ]