[Oh, Varian. Doing things for nothing has been what he's best at his whole time in this game.]

He was rather convincing at the time, I'll give him that, even if I thought it was an extremely stupid plan. But once he'd started I knew there was no talking him out of things.

He would've just done something stupid to himself if I'd left things alone. And I couldn't let that happen.

[He shrugs, leaning back against the wall. Everything's fine here. He's fine with how things went. Fine with dying, fine with being the bad guy, fine with the memory of Salieri's blood spilling everywhere--

It's all fine.]

I know I'm hardly one to talk, but really, he can be so stubborn.