The portraits in the elevators. You must have noticed.

[They're possessed, he doesn't say. If he looks at Cy, it's only when he is sure the man isn't looking at him first — a very careful glance from the corners of eyes, veiled by lashes, seeming to seek... something. Not finding it, so another glance away.]

I encountered the one that demanded punishment for sins committed. I knew the person who was in there with me, so I told him to do this, that I would bear the punishment because I knew how to protect myself from permanent damage. It's not his fault.

[He has no idea that Cy was in the same situation with someone else — or that Cy used the same method, only with the advantage of an immortal body.]