[He keeps messing this up. Renart, at least, he could understand. Monty had killed Bucky, after all. This? This, it makes no sense. The changes wrought on him and the others in Between had been horrifying, but after a time, they'd become a matter of course. The existential dread of not really existing had rather tempered their reactions to it all.]

I care that that man cast Renart out and degraded her simply because of what she is, Royce. I thought you of all people could understand that! Perhaps you are not the man I thought you were!