[ vayne's aware, at least, that not everyone's willing to, or can think the way he does. maybe they can criticize him for the fact that he can afford to think this way. it's not like he's the one who was killed. it's not like it was the people close to him who were. maybe naivety is innately a privileged thing.

or maybe he doesn't like to think of the person he'd be if he were more willing to condemn someone to not getting something as simple as this. he still seems to half expect censure for having left anything for the culprits, would be or not, after all. ]

... I don't expect everyone to forgive them. Or, I mean ... I don't expect anyone to. [ he says, emphasizing the expect as well. ] They can if they want ... but no one has to.

I still think they did some pretty awful things, after all. I'm not ... I'm not trying to erase that.