"Despite all my troubles, despite all my inhibitions and tribulations, I always come back to this place...because it reminds me of her.
"The snow is as white as her hair and as pure as her soul...she's gone now...because of my inability to protect her...because of my mistake. I'll never leave this place, and take up the mantle of the Winter Machinist. I'll hunt the fiends that took her from me until my dying day.
"This I swear."