[ For a moment Philip is silent. Then he speaks in a low and monotone voice, eyes looking at something in the distance that isn't actually there. ]

I was trapped in an abandoned research station before I came here; an underground facility that had been wiped out by a virus... ancient or perhaps alien, I cannot say for sure.

The researchers down there, the entire personnel... everyone who had been infected turned into monst-- into creatures that were barely even human anymore.

And I [ Deep breath. ] contracted that virus.

[ He has to pause here to compose himself again. ]