He leans back against the tree. "But the Loyalists betrayed me. They poisoned me, threw me to the Flooded District. Left me for dead. They wanted power for themselves. I saved Emily, but they wanted to use her. Havelock, their leader, was the only one alive. I went after him, saw him dangling little Emily out from the top of the lighthouse. I must have missed a guard, though, because I felt a pain, ended up back in the prison cell from Coldridge. Only it was the Barge."
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He leans back against the tree. "But the Loyalists betrayed me. They poisoned me, threw me to the Flooded District. Left me for dead. They wanted power for themselves. I saved Emily, but they wanted to use her. Havelock, their leader, was the only one alive. I went after him, saw him dangling little Emily out from the top of the lighthouse. I must have missed a guard, though, because I felt a pain, ended up back in the prison cell from Coldridge. Only it was the Barge."
Hence the reason he lost his goddamned mind.