“You’ll expose evil by doing evil?” “No,” Tau said. “I’ll reclaim my humanity by destroying a man who would otherwise deny it. You can’t talk people into giving up their hold over you. You have to make them do it.” “Tau”—it was unsettling to hear his name, unadorned, from her mouth—“aren’t you simply justifying the right to do harm? And who but those who have succumbed to evil can believe they have that right?”
