User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/The Fatekeeper/@comment-25808351-20161121045411/@comment-28358106-20161122212129

'"Then we have something in common, though I care not who fears me.  Fear is the highest form of truth, for it shows  the final measure of one's soul.  When you find fear in a man, you find the limits of his being.  Thomas hates you because he has glimpsed into your past through  the Crucible, and saw in the eyes of every slaughtered child the reflections of his own.  He may one day say that he forgives you.  He is a liar." '

He gestures. '"We do the same, you and I.  We do what must be done, hated and feared for our actions." '

He taps his finger on the arm of his chair. ' "And what would you have done differently, Marcus?  What is it about Thomas and his kin that would drive you to such deception?" '