"Let me rephrase," Maybe it was a little too subtle for him, or maybe he was deliberately misunderstanding her, "I'm here to watch my friend, Thane Krios, die. He's too much of an asshole to win while he can."

Or rather, he was too good a man to abandon the rest of them to the arenas. That hadn't always been true, but-- it was, now. Or, at least, he was trying to make it the truth. Maybe that was the only real difference between good and evil.

"...You?"