Neither had he been. [ he said, with the sort of finality of what a true loss of self was. Silco would have never expected it, for someone who he'd grown up with, worked with, staged a revolution with to have ever given up the fight. To think there was something worth more to protect than their cause. No, cowards who lost their way should pay for such foolishness.

Silco would never, could never.

He would, for the exact same reason. ] But don't worry, I won't hold it against you. [ much. ] We all have our foolish weaknesses, don't we?

And a drink would be precisely what we need to drown it. [ At the bottom of a river. ] I'm sure Tezcatlipoca would hardly mind the company, either.