[ Now it's Strange's turn to just pause for a moment. ]

When I was under her thrall, I hurt people I cared about. I didn't even think about what I was doing in the first place. I don't want that to happen again but considering everything...

[ And Strange just breaks off there, stubbornly jamming his hands into his pockets as he tries to force an expression on his face that's somewhere remotely close to his normal sort of arrogance. The long and short of it is he's scared as hell and obviously doesn't know how to admit it. ]