[Here's the pride he recognizes speaking, for this is the same pride that he felt. One that can make you believe in your own greatness surpassing everything else. Or wretchedness beyond redemption. Neither is true.]

Do you truly?

[He knows what you did. He was the one who put you on the path of this devastation.]

And you feel you have the power and the foresight to lay such doom on yourself? To demand punishment according to your own judgement?

[In another age, at another time, those words might have been accusations. He was so fast at throwing those at people. Even his own family. Now, they have none of the edge. They're a plea for understanding, hesitant and undemanding. Nothing more.]