It came with Cain's pragmatism. After a point, everyone was responsible not only for themselves but for the lives they touched in their time. Whether or not they allowed themselves to be dragged down by that responsibility was the actual trick to it, one that Cain had discovered long ago. He was curious but not cruel enough to ask if Valdis understood that. She wasn't under interrogation even if Cain continued to ask what questions he could.

"Without morals, there's nothing to judge," said Cain, simply. If someone had no emotions or morals, what exactly was the metric of the weight? Reapers cared not what kind of person lived or died; all that mattered was that they succumbed once their time was run up. If evil people lived longer than good, then so be it. Judgment was not the call of anyone remotely near an earthly plain. "Your kind must have been following orders from somewhere, right?"