They've withdrawn by this point, and the look he gets is loaded with distance and meaning and cold answers that he would need a dictionary to make sense out of. How utterly idealistic o him; does he also see in their eyes the deaths of every innocent they've ever killed? If not, he should get his eyes checked, because surely they're in there somewhere.

"Okay," they say out loud. "What's a good reason? ... Protecting people?" He certainly seems the type.