It was easy to explain his failings as if he was victim to a berserker's state and no longer had control of his actions, but his temperament wasn't the trigger he was felled by. He was fully coherent in the throes of his power-crazed panic, but that power had its hold over him rather than the other way around. He couldn't stop it with a thought. He couldn't calm the tempest once it was unleashed until it had worn itself ragged, and that had a tendency to rage at anything and everything in the vicinity while he serves as its battery and the medium by which it hurts.
This is why he hesitated in his steps to the field today: but he only ever hesitated. He never stopped.
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