He spoke slowly, his voice steady and filled with piercing power:
"Commander Carroll, it is not the Night Watchers who are in chaos, but the decaying old order that stubbornly resists and cannot keep up with the changes of the times.
"The commoners demand rights? That's because they have gained power and seen the dazzling possibility of changing their destiny, unwilling to be slaughtered like livestock any longer.
"Isn't that only natural? As for the nobles being killed and impacted...
"If the nobles themselves acted justly, treated their people kindly, and got along well with them, how would they invite such extreme and destructive hatred?
"The Night Watchers only gave the weak the power to voice and resist, without inciting them to do evil. The real root of the problem, I'm afraid, is the deep-seated resentment accumulated over the years by some people."
His narrative was also unshakably correct.
