You don't think I betrayed anyone?

[He lets out an amused chuff of air before beginning to weld the piece Riptide is holding.]

I promised freedom to a generation and gave them four thousand millenia of death and suffering. Then I left them all when it was over, when they were scattered and needed a leader.

[Some weariness enters his voice.]

I don't consider myself to be in much of a place to judge.