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If that experience has taught me anything, it is that even if I had been a virtuous man, I would still have been the victim of the same injustices, and why? There is always at least one person with power who cares nothing for law, cares nothing for honesty, or equality, or lawfulness, and only about silence and control.

My keepers in Charenton cared nothing for helping or healing me. They only wished to hide me.

[Private to Prefect]

I won't trouble you in person. I realize you were not the same man, just as I was not the same man, in terms of how we each arrived here. But there was still a core of truth in my identity, as I'm sure there must have been in you.

My point -- thank you. There are few that I could credit with saving what sanity I had, and I can say that one of them was most definitely you.

Merci, Prefect.

[Private to Iago]

We shall have this conversation here or in person.

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Fine. You apologize and I accept that. I do not wish to speak of this any longer.

Why? You demanded my honesty before -- it must go both ways.

Keep your secrets next time. I do not want to talk about it.

What did you do after it happened?

Nothing!

Iago.

I killed West...

...You what?

I convinced West to take Judas...thinking he would be safer with him. But West ended up getting killed because of it.

Because I convinced him to do it.

You...Oh, Iago -- sometimes you truly do astound me.

~~Henry~~

Major West understands the risks in his undertakings. Do not shoulder the blame of men who had weapons in their hands already poised to strike.

What is so astounding? And your words mean nothing. I know what I did. I gave him the knife...

Knowing that you feel that way proves to me that hope remains.

You did not give him the knife with the intention of delivering him to his own death. Surely you must see that.

Fine. I see it. Are we finished?

For now, Iago.

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