"Try to think of fish flyin' through the sky. Walkin' underwater. Just... think about it."

He taps the pendant.

"...Do you remember me talkin' to a stocky man, once? Big fella. Looked like I really missed 'im, but I had to turn away from 'im. It was real hard. But you were there. You was also there when somethin' spoke to me..."

And he'd agreed with it. That he was doomed to lose everyone and everything.