He stood listening to the Nazi doctor, the man who had haunted his whole life, and the world was turning upside down. We were only children! How often had he thought that accusation? But now he stood and saw not a Nazi but himself. He sat there tied to that chair making excuses for the lives he stole. They were only children! For so long he had never seen it, that what he had done to Jarod was what this man had done to him.

            Sydney had feared and hated the monster all his life. Now he was the monster.