I didn't know if I ever would be! Agent Washington said that I'd become a monster like the townspeople did unless he and Mister McCrimmon finished me off in a way that would thoroughly destroy my body, and I was so hurt that I couldn't have survived anyway, and...

I know I should just try to push it to the back of my mind since it's over, but it still scares me for some reason.

Ah, shortly after I came back the passage between the laboratories and the Mayor's residence finally opened up, but I don't know how or why.