The more Ardyn talked the more he sounded like Walter. Roland didn't know if Walter saw himself as some sort of martyr as this man seemed to, or if Walter had any interest at all in saving humanity. Rather, Roland thought Walter wished to destroy humanity. "You-" what came after that he didn't know.

Roland moved the arm of his free hand up to loop over the back of the kitchen chair instead, making his shoulders hunched, and he looked far older than he possibly was in that position. Despite himself, he couldn't help a yawn that overcame his face momentarily. Gods was he tired, down to the core him, he was so damned tired since coming to Thisavrou.

"Darkness is not perfection either. Evil, torment, cruelty are all darkness and they are far from perfection. It is true that it consumes all with its endless hunger but I disagree that it doesn't discriminate. Evil uses those it can, whether they seek it our or not. That is what I have seen."