[Blake mutters at the floor] No fucking kidding.

[He was lucky the kid never did much besides burst into tears or kick him in the shins. Never even sent one of his animals to try to kill him.

Blake shakes his head hard. He doesn't understand any of this multiple world shit, can't begin to untangle what it means, but what he knows for sure is the guilt is there, latched to his neck like a leech.] He's me. I'd've done the same thing.

Hell, in two different worlds, before that, we both must have been beating the shit out of him at the same exact time.