‘Possibly the most life-changing thing you ever taught me,’ Creon added, unmoving, ‘is that monstrous powers alone are not enough to make a monster. So I’ll be damned if I let you drag yourself down that same path, cactus. You did what you had to do, and you did it well. There’s nothing evil about that.’ ‘It feels evil,’ I managed. ‘It … it …’ He huffed a laugh. ‘Evil would have been forcing them to kill their children. Or possibly making them slit each other’s throats and dissolving the bodies in acid. Which would have been amusing in its own way, but—
