I do. [He shrugs.] It is true, what I said to him. He was not...himself. None of us were. I cannot blame a person who does not exist any more.

[Of course he was oversimplifying. Of course the person - the drone - that he had been was still in the back of his mind, throbbing like an old scar. And he knew the same would be true of Prefect and Amber and all the others, but...it couldn't really be explained to someone who hadn't experienced it for themselves.]