If you choose to fight, you're not a weapon. You're a person, making a choice.

That's an important thing, to me. [Dread lifts one hand, curling it into a fist. The runes in his glove flare to bright, white life.] I do a lot of fighting. My wife and I... we've fought things no one else in the world could. But I never forget that I choose to do it, and that keeps me from feeling used, feeling out of control. Feeling like I exist just for that.