“HURT YOU?” NATE EYES widened.
“That's what I said. Should I choose another language for clarity? Latin perhaps?”
“I understood you fine. I just don't know why you came to me.”
“You're a smart human, Nate. Look what you’ve rebuilt in five years. Pretty damn impressive. If there's one human Earthside that I kind of respect, it's you.”
“Is that supposed to be a compliment?”
“Nervous about the past? Forget about it. It's irrelevant.”
“I don't call you burning fifty-four people alive irrelevant.”
“It's what happens when you choose the wrong side. They had to go. Jack was leading you down a path I know you didn't want to travel.”
“You know this how?”
“You think Charouth didn't tell me what happened in that basement? You should be ashamed. Embarrassed. Mortified.”
“You don't have to wo
