"For the next... god, eight months, I made my way up through India, China, across the Middle East, Egypt... partying and drinking and forgetting. Eventually, sometime in the fall of 2001, I found myself in Italy. Almost completely by accident, but my memory of that time is... crowded. Hazy. I don't know if I went looking for her consciously or what but I saw Adelaide in Rome and... she offered me a place, a home. A family. Things I didn't have. Things I'd thrown away or lost. And I was so far gone by then that I figured, who the hell cares if I damn my soul, and I accepted. I jointed the Domina. I took the Vow and... started my training."