He looked at her with great poise and his head held high, as if challenging her to contradict him. Rose was horrified and felt a deep sadness seeing how much the young elf had internalized Scorpius's ideas. This made her realize that those words must have been originally spoken by him. Aiden was just repeating them, giving her the impression that her ex-boyfriend was communicating with her from beyond the grave. As if she needed any more evidence to know that she had been entangled with a true monster, or any more reasons not to ever want to see him again.