"There is a difference between beware and be terrified. There is also a difference between the kind of fear that makes people abstain from action, and the kind of fear that spurs people into hostile action. Only in hiding, until the damage is too great to contain."

He is too angry to realize he is saying things that Kyle already knows. Or should know.

Then he shrugs.

"I am the reason he decided he should. It's not what I told him to do."