"Yeah, that's... That's the problem," David answered. It didn't help that he knew that the whole thing had ended when Starstruck had fallen. No, that only made it all that much easier to justify. But he hadn't expected his mind to justify hurting others along the way.

"Reasonable arguments are so fucking cold. And yet I can make them. Others can't all the time. And I can. It's part of me. I hate it, but it is."