"Then really it was just you being an asshole keeping me from a part of myself all this time," Gar says a bit harshly. Still it felt... liberating to be free of the damned thing.

He still didn't know if he would believe he would be free. He wouldn't be free in any of the scenarios. Dorrek would still control him... Gar just gets to choose how, his own poison or whatever.

"I guess if I choose the latter then at least I can still try to change your mind."