"Exactly."

His words were hissed now, hands gripping at his face as he tried to wrest his expression into something he could bear to show her.

"This world is cruel, broken, twisted. Ruled by a god that was corrupted long before I intervened. If I succeed, I will make a new world, one without such things - if the steps I must take to get there are cruel, so be it. Soon that cruelty will never exist again... can't you see this!?"