You speak misleadingly. I understand them, not crave them. I don't crave death. I don't crave a family full of dead elders. It's what the worlds delivered, unasked, several times over. And I'm hardly unique in that.

( said levelly, no heat, not even chill in his voice. too factual. these are the things which have happened. )

What was my justice, when I was younger and prideful enough to believe I had to hold it all on my own?