[There's a reason, in the end, that they share a legacy. It's only the sect that differs - unfortunate, really, because the sect is what makes all the difference.

He can see himself in these answers, in the thought processes that go behind them; it's something he might have agreed with once. But that's before the blessings, and the rituals, and everything else that's gone into him and refused to get out again. Perhaps their differences are irreconcilable; perhaps not. He would have liked this person under different circumstances, he knows that much to be true. Maybe there's a chance he still can.

But this is just...]

No. It's not that you can't make that decision; it's that you refuse to. That's the difference that we're looking at.