… I am to blame for all that’s happened, sir. The cull – the rapes, the murders, the deaths of my parents, and all that Felisin must now endure.’ ‘Captain—’ ‘It is all right, sir.’ Paran smiled. ‘The children of my parents are, one and all, capable of virtually anything. We can survive the consequences. Perhaps we lack normal conscience, perhaps we are monsters in truth. Thank you for the news, Commander.

