[He's quiet for a moment; the silence is odd, distant. Off in his head, in some ways, before he speaks again.]

Do you still believe that I deserve to live? To not be judged for my past actions? Because I find those words are easier to say when they don't involve things like "unfathomable mass slaughter."

[And that's...highly unfair, and he knows it; his words are blank as opposed to cold.]