Little more than a shake of his head, and Devin went back to working on the door frame.

"They are victims regardless, whether by my hand or by another, or by the slow march of time. Killing them today or a hundred or even a thousand years from now is nothing in the face of an eternity of torment, which is all they have to look forward to," he explained calmly. None of these were questions he hadn't himself considered, when the wildfire of his anger had been restrained. "I'm not exempt either, in case you were wondering."