Strange knew that Childermass damaged his soul. And he knew that whatever it was coincidentally happened the night of Ignatius exploding the ship. But he hadn't connected the dots that the root of all this was Ignatius taking Childermass's power to begin with. That bastard. That mad, wonderful bastard.

"So what you're telling me is that if I want results, I shouldn't listen to your plans and I should do whatever the hell I want." There's a light, teasing smile on Strange's face as he says this. He knows that's not the right thing to take from this, but if Lambert's going to laugh at him, he's going to give him shit in return.

"I can understand why he did it," Strange admits. "We can barely do anything on our own to begin with—at least giving Ignatius his power was doing something and getting some sort of result."