If there were heroes and villains in their world, out and open and visible, Mark had to believe Damien absolutely would have gone full on cape and cowl villain. How could he not with his power?

"And that's the voice of experience talking, I take it," Mark says as he guides them through the twists and turns out of the greenhouse. "That's... harder for me. I'm a photographer, Damien, with a serious love of landscape and architecture shots. In a way, what I am as an artist is about taking those places I love with me, in not letting go of that part of the past."

And that essence to himself was what had put him on the rocks with Sam.