Because I wasn't human, and I was hungry. And I had to feed my...

[He pauses and taps his fingers against his collarbones to calm down.]

My partner was trapped. Too big to get out of one of the caves. I was smaller, so I'd go hunting and bring back the body to feed him after I drank the blood. Whatever he didn't eat, I'd finish.

It was my fault he was down there with me. It never should have happened.

So. I just... wanted to be punished for that most of all.