Y'know I think the thing is, the people who defend Her defend Her even when She brings children here. The ones who're real far gone aren't goin' to care how old He is.

[He might have been a little more forgiving once. No longer. Things have gone too far and got too serious for him to give his enemies too much benefit of the doubt. He still feels sorry for the more than he actively hates them but the fact remains that there is a divide between him and the people who follow the Fog God that's far too wide to bridge. He can keep an uneasy truce in public for the sake of appearances (and because there will still always be that part of him that tries to see the best in people, even if he has to look so very very hard to find it). Hell, in some cases he agrees with them, like when Mike posted about rebuilding a new monument. He can understand that need to remember and to come together as a community. He can't understand the need to taint it with the Fog God's influence and he hopes Mike actually keeps his word about avoiding that.]

The important thing is we know, and we can protect him like he's protectin' us. We made the right choice.

[His hand squeezes Marco's tight.]

We did.